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2023-02-13 -Land of the Free
Unidentified object shot down over Lake Huron — third in as many days
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Posted by Fred 2023-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Or they could be lost US weather balloons, but that'd be boring.
Posted by Bobby 2023-02-13 11:49||   2023-02-13 11:49|| Front Page Top

#2 An advanced civilization in a star system light years from here might well send unmanned probes to get an idea of what it's like here on planet Earth. It'd be no surprise if they came to the same conclusion as the little grays in the graphic.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-13 12:55||   2023-02-13 12:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Congratulations Air Force! You used a million dollar missile to shoot down a $500 runaway advertising balloon.
Posted by Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-02-13 14:08||   2023-02-13 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 $5-600K for AIM9X.
Posted by Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-02-13 14:15||   2023-02-13 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 USGOV is not saying much about the first balloon and nothing at all about the other three alleged targets. If you have any "documentation" for your "runaway advertising balloon" claims, everyone here is interested to see it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-13 14:21||   2023-02-13 14:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Car sized octagonal shape. Too small to carry any electronic spying payload but the right size to float streamers on a used car lot.
Posted by Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-02-13 14:27||   2023-02-13 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 We ought to recruit some steam punk dudes from a Renaissance Festival, hijack a Goodyear blimp, board one of those objects and see what all is going on. Maybe only half of them will be feds.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-13 17:18||   2023-02-13 17:18|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Immediately thought, "Sounds like a job for SM's League of Extraordinary Feds" (finally watched the impossibly bad LXG (or saboteurs' simulacrum thereof?) the other day). And then I read the second sentence. Ha.
Posted by Javish Lumplump7499 2023-02-13 18:53||   2023-02-13 18:53|| Front Page Top

#9 An octagonal structure with strings
Could be any number of things
But as skyward it glides
Those who lined up for rides
Can read, over its sides, "Crazy Ming's".
Posted by Javish Lumplump7499 2023-02-13 18:57||   2023-02-13 18:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Or possibly "China Eastern".
Posted by Javish Lumplump7499 2023-02-13 19:09||   2023-02-13 19:09|| Front Page Top

#11 #7 - too late for SOTD, but worthy
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-13 19:15||   2023-02-13 19:15|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-02-13 19:50||   2023-02-13 19:50|| Front Page Top

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