Shoot first and ask question later?

[jacks]

Does it seem strange to anyone else that we are shooting down objects, without knowing what they are? And then we can't find them! Why not send some helicopters to accompany the jets that shoot them down? At least then we could track them. Not sure what is going on.
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[Yttrium]

Helicopters don't normally go up to 40,000 feet. It's been done, but it's not easy.

 

[jacks]

Helicopters don't normally go up to 40,000 feet. It's been done, but it's not easy.

I didn't know all the objects where at 40K feet. Perhaps they could hang out at a lower altitude and follow the debris down? It just seems slipslop that we blow them out of the sky not knowing what they are or where the remains go to find out.

 

[sandman]

It just seems slipslop that we blow them out of the sky not knowing what they are or where the remains go to find out.

Don’t be so sure that we don’t know what they are, and what remains we have collected.

This is national security…. and at best the public will get window dressing in attempt to appease curiosity. … The real truth of what they gathered and what they know…. will not ever be made known to the public.

 

[jacks]

Don’t be so sure that we don’t know what they are, and what remains we have collected.

This is national security…. and at best the public will get window dressing in attempt to appease curiosity. … The real truth of what they gathered and what they know…. will not ever be made known to the public.

You could be right, but I don't know if this makes me feel better. I.e. "they" know exactly what it is and where it went...they just aren't telling us.

 

[FireDragon76]

They are probably small unmanned blimps. China fields these sorts of things. Some of them may have simply drifted off course.

 

[Whyayeman]

Nothing to suggest UFO in this:

‘Significant’ debris from China spy balloon retrieved, says US military

Sensors and electronics pulled from waters off South Carolina, says military, after White House says Beijing’s surveillance program dates back years

www.theguardian.com

It looks terrestrial.

And it appears that these things have been around for a while...

 

[ThatRobGuy]

They are probably small unmanned blimps. China fields these sorts of things. Some of them may have simply drifted off course.

That would be similar to my guess...

As far as why there have been so many in quick succession after the first was shot down...I suspect that can be chalked up to nations increasing the sensitivity as a reaction to the first one.

Adjusted radar settings likely behind rash of USA’s unknown object detections

The Pentagon says it has been more closely scrutinising the airspace around North America after an incursion by a Chinese surveillance balloon, including increasing the sensitivity settings on radars that previously were not reporting small, low-speed objects.

www.flightglobal.com

“Radars essentially filter out information based on speed,” says NORAD commander General Glen VanHerck. “You can set various… velocity gates that allow us to filter out low-speed clutter.”

VanHerck adds there are additional filters for an object’s size and altitude – all intended to keep benign objects like wildlife or clouds from triggering alerts.

However, in the aftermath of the Chinese balloon incident, NORAD has adjusted those gates to report objects previously filtered out.

 

[jacks]

Nothing to suggest UFO in this:

‘Significant’ debris from China spy balloon retrieved, says US military

Sensors and electronics pulled from waters off South Carolina, says military, after White House says Beijing’s surveillance program dates back years

www.theguardian.com

It looks terrestrial.

And it appears that these things have been around for a while...

I think your link takes us to the balloon shot down earlier this month. I'm wondering more about the latest small (car size) ones shot down over the NW territories. HERE

 

[Say it aint so]

I think your link takes us to the balloon shot down earlier this month. I'm wondering more about the latest small (car size) ones shot down over the NW territories. HERE

Pilots gave different accounts of what they observed after coming near the object, a source briefed on the intelligence told CNN; some pilots said it “interfered with their sensors,” but other pilots said they didn’t experience that. The object was flying at 40,000 feet, which made it a risk to civilian traffic."

Good enough for me.

 

[jacks]

They are probably small unmanned blimps. China fields these sorts of things. Some of them may have simply drifted off course.

Apparently that is about the only thing they don't think it is. HERE Though you could be right, they aren't sure yet.

 

[Blade]

Depends how you see it. Like some will say but are we really shooting anything down? Does this take our eyes off anything else? Does it lead to more spending on? Does not help that within all this the stories don't match like one post "Pilots gave different accounts ". Try to walk on any base not going through the right door so to speak see what happens. So "anything" flying where it should not be will be warned then shot down

 

[Ana the Ist]

Does it seem strange to anyone else that we are shooting down objects, without knowing what they are? And then we can't find them! Why not send some helicopters to accompany the jets that shoot them down? At least then we could track them. Not sure what is going on.
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We can just have the helicopters shoot them down.

Honestly, I think the balloons are a low tech distraction. They are either probing for holes in detection ability of our radar systems....or used to draw focus off of more high tech methods that they don't want us noticing.

 

[Petros2015]

 

[Whyayeman]

I think your link takes us to the balloon shot down earlier this month. I'm wondering more about the latest small (car size) ones shot down over the NW territories. HERE

I couldn't find pictures of those. Maybe, soon?

 

[Nithavela]

If those aliens can be shot down that easily after interplanetary travel, I don't think we could learn much from them.

 

[jacks]

It just all seems a bit like going hunting with Dick Cheney.

"Blast!" Blast!" "Blast!"
"What did you just shoot at Dick?"
"I don't know"
"Where did it go?"
"I don't know".
"Why did you shoot it?"
"Because it was there."

(My apologies to any Dick Cheney supporters. Just joking. )

 

[MehGuy]

I think the US military is just bored.

 

[jacks]

Curiouser and curiouser!

Joe Biden Leaves Crucial Mystery About UFOs Unexplained.