Shoot first, ask questions later

Oops, sorry, there won't be any answers so forget the questions

From today’s NY Times:

“American authorities had been trying to reach remote areas of Alaska and Lake Huron for two of the objects, but on Friday a U.S. official said the conditions made it too difficult to pinpoint the objects. The Canadian search for the third object over the Yukon was still ongoing, the official said.

On Friday, military pilots searched an area 20 miles off the coast of northern Alaska, temporarily imposing flight restrictions. The pilots used aircraft equipped with radar to see through the ice but found no trace of the object, believed to be about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, the official said.”

So, US fighter pilots used missiles to shoot down 3 ‘objects.’ One was the size of a small car. US military command chose where it wanted to shoot them down—did it choose places that civilians would have a very difficult time reaching?

They tell us that satellites can read a license plate. They tell us that balloons have even sharper visual skills. But they canot find any of the three objects. Really? They can find them if they want to.

Last week they wanted us to consider they were UFOs, presumably from outer space. This week we are to believe they are drones. Or balloons. Or something.

The ‘extremely reliable’ Adam Schiff and another pundit want us to believe in alien UFOs:

Gallaudet, a former deputy NOAA administrator, is convinced that some UFOs spotted off the Eastern Seaboard have demonstrated capabilities that “are not of human origin.” Navy pilots have reported regular sightings of such objects — corroborated by multiple sensors — that seem to defy the capabilities of terrestrial engineering. There have been 11 near miss encounters with these objects, according to Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence.

“It is not the human eye confusing objects in the sky,” Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said at a House Intelligence subcommittee hearing on UAPs, in May 2022. “There is something there, measurable by multiple instruments. And yet it seems to move in directions that are inconsistent with what we know of physics or science more broadly.”

The last downed object, I thought, was flying at about 40,000 feet. I spoke to a former fighter pilot, who informed me that fighters can go to at least 60,000 feet and maybe even 80,000. So just in case all our terrestrial spy apparatus could not get a good look at that last object (I don’t know how high the others flew), the fighter that shot it down could easily have gotten a good look at it before shooting at it. Did he/she? If there was glare, as alleged in the WaPo article (from a pirated transmission) couldn’t the pilot have flown around it to get a better look?

From the WaPo:

It took two attempts to hit the object over Lake Huron; did a $19 million jet fire a $400,000 missile at what could have been a $6 Mylar balloon from a child’s birthday party ... and miss? Why, suddenly, is the military engaging multiple objects? Is it because we are experiencing a failing, slow-motion invasion by a hapless species from another solar system?

We blew up the Nordstream pipelines. But we couldn’t even get that right: 2 of the 4 charges were placed on the same pipeline (we blew 2 large holes in one) and one of the four pipelines remained unscathed and is usable.

We shot down an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon and then seemingly decided to play target practice in the stratosphere.

I don’t think we sent the desired message, which presumably was that we are the big kid on the block. I think the message that was received is that we are a fading empire that couldn’t identify a pipeline in 200 feet of water and went off half cocked, wasting ammunition in the sky. That we are reckless and untrustworthy.

How long till the rest of the world stops playing with the trigger-happy bully?