So I commented on another post here about Rep. Luna's letter to Pete Hedgehog etc... I wrote this for myself actually, a few months back in order to understand the events. Feel free to help me understand what really happened here and add your 2 cents of what you believe happened, and why information was slow dripped and only released via foiya (freedom of information act). Also rough draft so... YUP! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Three UFOs were all shot down over the span of three days, all about a week after the Chinese balloon incident. Since it was such a huge embarrassment for the Biden administration and the country, our radar systems were calibrated to be more sensitive to aerial objects, hence being able to detect smaller intrusions. On February 10, 2023, a UAP or ufo, or whatever term is best suited for unknown flying object, was shot down over Alaska by an F-22 Raptor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5gpVHfqARk Unidentified object near Alaska shot down by U.S. fighter pilot.). President Biden ordered the shoot down because the unidentified craft was flying around 40,000 feet, was the size of a small car, and so posed a flight risk to commercial craft. This UFO was was flying around 20 to 40 miles an hour before it was shot down per the Guardian article. It was brought down over the frozen ocean. The next day, on February 11, 2023 NORAD and the Canadian Minister of National Defence and Chief Of the Defence Staff ordered the shoot down of another UFO over Yukon, Canada. In this case, the UFO was also shot down by a USAF F-22 Raptor at 3:41am local time. This UFO, appeared to be a “small metallic balloon with a tethered payload” according to The Wallstreet Journal. Senator Chuck Schumer believes that the Yukon and Alaska ufos were balloons, actually surveillance balloons from either China or Russia according to Wikipedia. This Yukon object was also flying around 40,000 feet, so did indeed pose a risk to air traffic. Some radio hobbyists also think that this UFO may be an amateur radio high altitude unmanned weather balloon, with callsign K9YO, because the balloon’s last tracking update matches the area around Yukon. This balloon went around the world 7 times before going missing in the Yukon area and per a reddit post, this seems to be the case. In a follow up story by the dailymail in 2024, they release a photo of the Yukon UFO, a grainy half moon shaped object in black and white. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13890799/Ex-military-official-reveals-Air-Force-REALLY-shot-UFO-encounter-Alaska.html https://preview.redd.it/bu5mty1tgosg1.png?width=633&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb084290ff4b71b0bbab129d029004a2ff6d6515 The image looks so grainy and out of focus and it’s a shame that the government wouldn’t release the actual clear photos. In the article, a retired officer of the Canadian military says that it was really a balloon, like the Chinese balloon which was shot down earlier that year. However, it states that actual military descriptions of the craft differ from statements given to the press: “One email from Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest described the UFO as a 'cylindrical object.' 'Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,' Brig. Gen. Laforest wrote. 'Best description that we have.'” The next day, on February 12th a UFO was also shot down over Lake Huron, on the border between the United States and Canada. It was initially spotted over Montana on Feb 11, then spotted the next day in Wisconsin, flying at 20,000 feet. It was tracked by NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) and was eventually shot down over Lake Huron under the orders of President Biden on Feb 12 by an F-16 fighter plane. Here is the shady part: it was supposedly recovered in March of 2023, or about a month later. However, the recovery was never announced and was only made public though a Freedom of Information request from CTVNews.ca. It was apparently recovered on Lake Huron’s shoreline in March 2023 by the Canadian police (Lake Huron borders both the USA, Michigan on one side and Ontario on the other). Through the documents released from the request, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police told a Canadian military general via email that the wreckage was a module from a company that sells weather monitoring equipment. Here is a major red flag: the recovery was never announced and the public only found out through a freedom of information request. Looking back it seems the admin was trying to avoid embarrassment perhaps. You tell me? This other article https://abc7ny.com/post/shot-down-over-lake-huron-object-ufo-michigan/12813568/ also states that the UFO was shot at twice with missiles and that the first missile, missed the object. They shot short range AIM-9X Sidewinder heat seeking missiles and stated that because of the craft’s size it was hard to target. After deep consideration, I believe that this Lake Huron UFO was a weather balloon. And that the pilots knew exactly what they were shooting at, being able to distinguish a “weather monitoring device” vs an unknown potentially adversarial craft, be it enemy states or extraterrestrial vehicles. In conclusion, I believe that all three of these UFOs were actually weather balloons and that the government never announced that explicitly because of fear of further embarrassment. They would fear embarrassment that they are sending multimillion dollar jets and shooting $300,000 missiles to knock out $100 dollar weather balloons. I say this because the government tried to let time pass so that people could forget about the incidents. President Biden didn’t want to be humiliated, so the recovery of the weather balloon in the Lake Huron case was never officially announced. submitted by /u/Glengarry_Leads [link] [comments]