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2023-02-15 Government Corruption
In Sudden Narrative Shift, Pentagon Admits Mystery Objects 'Probably' Private Craft Not Tied To Spying
[ZERO] Edward Snowden called it (and so did we)... just a day ago, as we reported: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the hysteria over UFOs being shot down over America and Canada is a distraction from Seymour Hersh’s story about the U.S. being responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.

Less than 24 hours later, on Tuesday, Bloomberg reports that "The US government has assessed that three unidentified objects downed since last Friday were likely for commercial use and not foreign intelligence gathering."

A 24/7 hyped news cycle, with breathless US defense official press briefings and reporters asking about aliens and UFOs, and just like that... the public is casually informed they were probably just "balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose."

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday: "Given what we’ve been able to ascertain thus far, the intelligence community’s considering, again, as a leading explanation, that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose."

Additionally, coming off the alleged Chinese 'spy' balloon shootdown off South Carolina on Feb.4 - which started this sensational trend of Pentagon jets taking potshots at floating unknown small objects in skies over North America with Sidewinder missiles that cost the taxpaying public $400,000 a pop, Kirby admitted:

"We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the People’s Republic of China’s spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts," Kirby said.

And what's more, with the "China balloon threat" new read scare over American skies narrative now apparently being walked back, the Pentagon says it may never know with certainty, as Axios reports further of Kirby's briefing:

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Hate to say it, but perhaps Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) needs another look, and not by the FBI.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-15 01:00||   2023-02-15 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Where was the Vincennes that day?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-15 07:39||   2023-02-15 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The fraternity brothers at Washington State spoofed NORAD.
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-02-15 08:00||   2023-02-15 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 If that Washington State balloon story is factual, someone (or a group of someone's) needs to have their asses kicked.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-15 08:03||   2023-02-15 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Apply same penalty as aiming laser at aircraft.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-15 08:05||   2023-02-15 08:05|| Front Page Top

#6 three unidentified objects

Well, certainly the FAA has registrations.

Uhm...Hey Pete!
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-15 09:40||   2023-02-15 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 The Nord Stream story sure did disappear.

I'm still not sure how much I'm into that piece outside of my feels, but:

Nobody was like, "Not the US Government I know!"

Nobody was like, "Impressive multi-month operation for somebody who wakes up with dreams about ice cream and balloon animals."

Nobody was like, "Story is wrong because Putin ordered the strike!"

All I know is they went through The Liar's Routine. Like they are with this.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-15 11:27||   2023-02-15 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 It's unpossible in many minds to believe it was an industrial accident. That angle was well covered here and it's as good an explanation as any, less the foil hat frisson.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-15 11:44||   2023-02-15 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 The fraternity brothers at Washington State spoofed NORAD.

The hell of it is that story is about as plausible as any of the others we're hearing. When you have to rely on the government for information about something like this, you might as well resign yourself to the fact that you will never know the truth.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-15 11:49||   2023-02-15 11:49|| Front Page Top

#10 For all we know, nothing at all was up there. The whole story is just another hoax to make it look like Biden is taking decisive action after his failure to act on the very real Chinese spy balloon.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-15 11:51||   2023-02-15 11:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Shooting at nothing. It happens a lot. It's when it gets orchestrated media coverage that it becomes a problem.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-15 12:14||   2023-02-15 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 "We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the People’s Republic of China’s spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts," Kirby said.

You saying it was an internal job? That why you let it cross out to sea?
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-15 15:47||   2023-02-15 15:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Has Germany or Russia commented on the Nord Stream pipeline?
Posted by ruprecht 2023-02-15 21:33||   2023-02-15 21:33|| Front Page Top

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