U.S. F-16 Shoots Down “Octagonal Object” Over Lake Huron, New York Times, Is It Aliens?
February 12th, 2023Update: Listen To F-16 Pilots Intercept Object Over Lake Huron, “I Wouldn’t Really Call it a Balloon… I’m Gonna Call it a Balloon”
The Pentagon released a recording of the encrypted plane-to-plane tactical link.
Via: The Warzone:
Most interesting is the fact that the Viper pilots had a tough time definitively describing the object.
“I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes,” one of the pilots says. “Looks like something… there’s some kind of object that’s distended… it’s hard to tell, it’s pretty small.”
“I’m gonna call it a balloon,” one of the pilots later adds.
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General Glen VanHerck is head of the United States Northern Command. Dark Journalist has been talking about VanHerck and Continuity of Government for years, and he just did it again yesterday:
Hours ago, New York Times reporter, Helene Cooper, attempted to fire up the alien narrative with, you guessed it, General Glen VanHerck:
Helene Cooper from the NYT just asked if it was aliens.
They say they haven’t ruled anything out and defer the question to the intelligence community. ?#ufotwitter #uaptwitter https://t.co/7gSjJElw3r
— ????s (@tinyklaus) February 13, 2023
Reuters chiming in: Ruling Out Aliens? Senior U.S. General Says Not Ruling Out Anything Yet:
The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said on Sunday after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects that he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to U.S. intelligence experts.
Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by U.S. warplanes in as many days, General Glen VanHerck said: “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven’t ruled out anything.”
“At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it,” said VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
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VanHerck said the military was unable to immediately determine the means by which any of the three latest objects were kept aloft or where they were coming from.
“We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason, said VanHerck.
The incidents come as the Pentagon has undertaken a new push in recent years to investigate military sightings of UFOs – rebranded in official government parlance as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UAPs.
Mmm hmm.
Via: The Warzone:
Another unknown object was shot down, this time over Lake Huron, according to U.S. Reps. Elissa Slotkin and Jack Bergman of Michigan.
“The object has been downed by pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard,” Slotkin tweeted Sunday afternoon. “Great work by all who carried out this mission both in the air and back at headquarters. We’re all interested in exactly what this object was and it’s purpose.”
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“Today at 2:42 p.m., at the direction of President Biden, and based on the recommendations of Secretary Austin and military leadership, an F-16 fired an AIM9x to successfully shoot down an airborne object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitude in U.S. airspace over Lake Huron in the State of Michigan. Its path and altitude raised concerns, including that it could be a hazard to civil aviation. The location chosen for this shoot down afforded us the opportunity to avoid impact to people on the ground while improving chances for debris recovery. There are no indications of any civilians hurt or otherwise affected. North American Aerospace Defense Command detected the object Sunday morning and has maintained visual and radar tracking of it. Based on its flight path and data we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites. We did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assess it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities. Our team will now work to recover the object in an effort to learn more.”
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We are getting additional images of the 148th FW F-16s returning to Madison. We see the other F-16 is also missing a AIM-9X, so more evidence of two shots having been taken. The aircraft are also in F-16CM configuration with a HARM Targeting System pod on the intake station opposite their Sniper ATP.
