Posted on 02/19/2023 5:54:14 PM PST by McGruff
Air traffic control has reported the sighting of a large white balloon off the coast of northeast of Hawaii on Sunday.
The Oakland Oceanic Air Traffic Control Center received a message stating that the balloon was observed over the Pacific Ocean, about 594 miles northeast of Honolulu.
The object seemed to be flying at an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 feet, according to reports.
Pilots were advised to report if they spot the object.
Further information about the sighting is currently unavailable.
Multiple balloons have been shot down by American forces this month.
Tell President Retard to get the SAMS ready
White House: ‘There Are No UFOs,’ ‘Thousands’ of Objects in Skies Could Be ‘Used Car Lot Balloons’ Slay News February 15, 2023
White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall (not joking)
You know you're safe in America when the WH admits that it's engaging in multi-million dollar military operations to shoot down used car lot balloons.
Nuke it from space. It’s the only way…
Mr. President… We cannot afford a Balloon Gap!
Or a sling shot.
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Got him. That’s one duck that ain’t gonna crap on my driveway again.
Yep.
Back in the 80s, Reagan helped push the breakup of the old USSR by ramping up our military, knowing that keeping up with us would bankrupt the Soviet Union.
China is now doing the same thing to us. They’re doing it by death of a thousand cuts.
Yes.
Can’t a high IQ inventor devise a “balloon buster?”
Raise or lower inner temperature so it explodes under pressure.
Rip it “a new azz hole” big enough to let it rip apart.
Shoot a grenade into it and watch it blow up.
Use an Olympic Bomber (Eric Rudoph 1996) type device filled with nails that will rip it to shreds.
1) The payload on the big balloons weighs over a ton.
2) Both the small and large balloons have electronic systems; smaller ones simply run off pre-charged li battery, larger runs have substantial solar charging capability (kilowatts)
3) The balloons are not in orbit. Gravitational force is proportional to mass. Weight is non-zero.
The figure given for weight of water is wrong.
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Show that balloon who’s boss!
594 miles is “off” Hawaii?
cue the memes
brandon at a kid’s bday party with lots of balloons
time to call an air strike
One more shootdown and he’s an Ace!
Maybe the local astronomer and model rocket clubs could work together and take them down for a few thousand dollars in parts? If only there were still a few Radio Shacks left...
Yeah, it's a variation on Zhuge Liang's Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows tactic using straw boats to collect (well in this case, use up) the enemies arrows. You can launch thousands of balloons for pennes and our dopey DOD will deplete our store of half million dollar missiles on each one.
Winnie the Xi has to be laughing his ass off at our ass in chief.
Just the illannoy governor kite surfing.
Jumping from one obsession to another in hopes of diverting the People from seeing the real 💩-shows going on.
I wonder what Biden is distancing himself from with his “surprise visit” to the Money-Laundering Place
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