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Imimgurwhoru
This is just another distraction in order for us to forget that Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself
dillydevpickle
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
That was my first thought, as well.
JustLetMeInNowPlzKthx
SickboySuperfly
This game popped into my mind right after the second object report came out
DrasticBastard
Cocain is getting mor scarce and expensive then.
Dannyalcatraz
The Chinese were just trying to pirate Netflix.
Darkspire
"They are potentially things" Thanks for the details guys. Top. Men.
SithElephant
Was part of a group doing fun balloon releases from the UK. Some went thousands of km. For no particular reason other than to take
SithElephant
pics and get cool tracks.
seriously9
How do we not have the technology to pop and catch ‘em in a net to inspect? & not having to go traipsing the woods to find em? Just sayin.
Alistairetheblu
How did China word that complaint about the 1st balloon shot down? Something something "reserve the right to respond further".
alexburgers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
LeftRightThere
Pleeeeease be drugs! I hope it’s a lot of drugs. That way we can stop hearing about border walls.
TheoryOfRelativeTea
Stoopid lib! Clearly we need to make the walls taller! If I can stand at the top and still be able to breathe then it's not tall enough!
mnreyno
There is a train wreck in Ohio releasing hazardous chemicals onto the air and water. This is a distraction
AtsaMattaForMe
Cytos
Drugs. It's drugs.
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
This shit is turning imgur into a conspiracy site
VibratingNipples
The payload at 6:00 mark, hypersonic missiles https://youtu.be/WCyplg_LPJ8
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
Covid 23?
CheeseborgarSoop
DON'T BELIEVE THE PSY OP Ask about Nord Stream Pipeline and East Palestine Ohio.
OriginalAndWitty
Isn't this how the Fallout series started? Time to stock up on battlecaps.
5m4llP0X
Nope. It started with War, War never changes.
Eramik
something, something annex Canada
5m4llP0X
China attacked Alaska, we annexed Canada, EU turned on one another, and then nukes.
notworkingghost
Come on. It’s drugs people.
OmnipotentBeing
Payload? Splain?
whyforetho
"Payload" just means it was carrying something. Could be anything. A camera. Some chemicals. Jake Gyllenhaal
OmnipotentBeing
That's what I was asking. What "something?" A biological or radiological weapon? A camera? A hamster on a wheel? Jake?
whyforetho
"the objects shot down...MAY have had SOME SORT of payload" reads like "we have no fucking idea"
OmnipotentBeing
Or, they found something bad, and they won't release the information to the public.
slgknapik12
Fleas with bubonic plague like in WWII
jankeydadondc
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
Bubonic plague is easily treatable. But something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora_capsici could be devastating.
DuffyMx
a payload that was dropped prior to destruction. a payload that you didn't yet find and probably is gathering its data.
MrStealUrMeme
Or it's just a payload of drugs and had nothing to do with spying.
Justzissguy
DarkZalgo
Right. A payload small enough not to be found, powerful enough to transmit information across countries, but not powerful enough to be
tlamstrike
Drop it near any place inhabited and transmit via a cell tower or someone's wifi.
DarkZalgo
..that'd be much, much easier to detect. And could be just as easily accomplished by mailing it to someone in the US.
DarkZalgo
Detected or require an external power source.
89PercentSureYoureFibbing
Cartels
beesleep
from where exactly?
Harryteeters
Those damned Alaskan MS-13s
NubeNube
You implying Alaskans don't have a reason to buy illegal drugs?
Harryteeters
I've been buying drugs my whole life without MS-13 from dudes named Steve n shit
NubeNube
You traced Steve's whole supply chain?
RetroBlast
Video footage of the intercept!
TacoFox
SHADO
Da3n
This was helpful. I had questions about how the stinger missile's tracking would lock on. Very informative!
BORGALOOGIE
Oh behave!
nothingtolurkhere
What was the name of this show?! I used to watch it as a kid and even had that toy ship.
RetroBlast
U.F.O., a 1969 series about a top-secret defense organization fighting a shadow war against invading UFOs.
nothingtolurkhere
Wow. Thanks.
Ilovetomakestuffup
Sounds like XCOM Interceptors the tv series
RetroBlast
The game X-COM was inspired by (and based on) the TV show UFO.
SubtleOrc
SHADO
RetroBlast
That was the name of the defense organization (Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defense Organization). Show was called U.F.O.
SubtleOrc
Yes indeed.. one of the absolute best sci-fi shows imo.
vakler
They're dropping in wolves. Hopefully.
namtrohs
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Thresholdpush
Custom drug smuggling drones?
Trunkmonkay
At 30k-45k ft? Lmao fuck no dummy. A balloon has no control at that altitude and good luck getting a $49 China drone up that high.
Thresholdpush
They're not all balloons ya vacuous dipshit.
Trunkmonkay
Read the 2nd sentence of my comment sweet pea. Before you say something dumb about it being a large Chinese drone, consider the logistics.
Alpharaccoonn
Jesus. You're deeply unpleasant aren't you. And you lie about shit in your comments too. You're frequently wrong about most things. Get help
Rongeong
I've heard a theory about testing radar detection capabilities because each object is a different shape.
Tarmaccian
As someone who knows a bit about real radar capabilities, I can’t say much… but I can laugh hysterically at this theory.
orbitn
As someone who knows a bit about real UFO radar-evading capabilities, I can only tell you..
djj25
Piñatas
SleepyKitten
That's where my brain went when I heard about some kind of "trailing strings/rope".
SecondSince
Most realistic take yet!
faultysage
Cocaine bear 2
vurcease
SageOfDepth
Meth Moose
ThatBobbyG
Hindenburg Express
stoots24
Lol Heisenberg
hyperchondriac
Well the Hindenburg was an airship that crashed, so... Both? Both is good.
Rijtjeshuis
It doesn't seem necessary over the Canada-US border, which isn't really hard to sneak across, especially the Yukon-Alaska portion.
theovermynd
Yeah but like. Do YOU wanna walk that shit in february?
tlamstrike
Not that long ago someone was smuggling arms across the border using drones.
Jawesome19
It's not about getting across, it's about being caught with 50 kilos of cocaine
GatoMamalon
Ahh yes, the 40 kilos
bottledham
I'd have a hard time carrying 30 kilos of anything very far, but especially 20 kilos of cocaine across the Yukon.
Vortex153
That’s my guess, drug drops
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
I’d guess research balloons for climate science. Go up with instruments. Drops data with parachute. Scientists locate it with gps beacon.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
That’s a hell of a detour for drugs, can’t imagine the range of those drones is that big. I read these were flying over sensitive airspace
uweapon
Balloons can go real far.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
I’m not talking about the balloons
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Which, by the way, are known to have been equipped with surveillance equipment; not drugs
CongratsYouAreHereNow
This is a lot scarier than drugs
PeeterGrant
Let me guess, they were just some pink mylar balloons from some stupid gender reveal party.
secretoaster
With a nuclear payload. Fallout is pink.
Vortex153
weidermeijer
“Viper One, it’s gonna be a girl.”
Icedtorch
the smallest was the size of a car.
weidermeijer
Maybach or Smart?
dickblack12
that's about the level of crazy those people get while advertising the genitals of their upcoming baby.
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
Gender: BIG
SageOfDepth
chjb5772
what if the aliens are trying to safe us and we keep shooting them down ?
DocWino
If you believe in aliens you probably believe in a god that will provide for you.
belongsinamuseum
Yes, aliens travel millions of years at just-below lightspeed in order to deploy shitty balloons and not talk to us upon arrival.
IcouldntfindmymedsthismorningsoItookyours
Then hopefully they’ll come here themselves and intervene.
SacrificialClam
Well yea, this is America so that is our typical respose to aliens.
3Davideo
I would *assume* any reasonable observation campaign would begin with long-range, passive observations. If they, say, stayed in the outer >
3Davideo
> solar system, they'd be undetectable to us (or at least look like random debris) while they could observe Earth and quickly discover >
3Davideo
> that our planet is positively SCREAMING in the radio and microwave spectrum in a way that would be entirely inconsistent with a mere >
3Davideo
> rock. They might not figure out *what* we're saying for a while, but it should be glaringly obvious that it's important. Why would they >
3Davideo
> skip straight to physical contact when they still have that to figure out?
Blackfinity
Reminds me of part of Alan Dean Foster's A Call To Arms, where visiting aliens sent craft down to learn about us and our...
Blackfinity
... armies shot the things out of the skies, puzzling and alarming the aliens...
idownvoteyourpuppy
I feel like the super shitty release of information about something so public is making this get all kinds of crazy.
LarvaLamp
Calm down, Dane Cook
Ninjainslippers
I really hate to both sides this, but CNN and NPR have been getting increasingly bad at journalism. Not Fox levels or worse but damn.
Firestar002
I don’t think I’d mind the censorship as much if I actually had CONFIDENCE in our Govt. military, yes. Govt, not so much.
idownvoteyourpuppy
Confidence in our military to do what? I learned new lows for a lot of things in the Navy.
Firestar002
Confidence in the military to shoot what needs to be shot down.
StruggleSnuggleChampion
I hate to burst your Chinese spy balloon but the military only shoots down what the government says should be, friend. The military IS govt.
JunkMonk
Perhaps it's a distraction from the Ohio train derailment and its contamination
zakisback
Public safety, so no one freaks out and panics, which will happen at some point in the next few weeks
blamiesnotfree
Its just a cover for the train job
QuisquiliarumHistoria
The media and rapid speculation are oversizing this issue. They are odd but not concerning. Don't get yourself worked up.
modus0
Wait, you're telling me I DIDN'T need to get started on digging out a survival bunker?
premium
It's being used to divert coverage away from that absolutely preventable fucking environmental disaster in Ohio.
SoraHjort
What happened after the chinese balloon, NORAD turned off a filter on their radar that cuts down on anything that isn't ICBMs and what not.>
SoraHjort
turns out, they started detecting a lot of weird stuff that wasn't flights and that is why we're seeing a lot of these now. And who knows >
SoraHjort
how long this stuff has been going on as well.
montyman185
Problem is everyone's pestering them, but they don't know anything, because they were downed so far away from civilization
TheWarHymn
That one shot over Lake Huron is awfully close to the Bruce Nuclear plant (2nd largest in the world). What the heck is going on...
montyman185
The Chinese are spying on strategic items of interest presumably. Or Russians, or whoever else. Seems pretty stupid to me, -
montyman185
They could just hire some guy to fly a drone over these things for a fraction of the price, but hey, it's not my money
idownvoteyourpuppy
A missile also seemed odd if you wanted to retrieve it in a useful condition but that's beyond my clearance...
idownvoteyourpuppy
At least they were good enough to let us know it wasn't aliens...
SoPoSassquatch
I'm going drugs
suffyr
Bro. I wish it was aliens
RumRunner42
God, right? The dream.
dirtmarker
Whatever. It was aliens.
CloakedFigure
Makes you wonder what this stuff is supposed to be distracting us all from… o_O
imoutofnames
Could be a distraction. Could also be a retaliatory response to all the people bitching as if the most recent incident was the first & only.
Vortex153
Train derailment in Ohio
CloakedFigure
distraingotnobrakes
Epstein’s client list.
gooftroop
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
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niooes
She says they blew up the derailed cars? What [vague] authorities?(I know she’s batshit crazy but I like to know for argument’s sake)
Frostycopper
There was a controlled burn but blowing up is far fetched.
Frostycopper
https://www.nytimes.com/article/ohio-train-derailment.html because I didn't know and had to look it up.
Dontletthebedbugsbite2
I've talked to so many people who didn't know. There was a journalist arrested at a press conference last week.
SciencePetsComputers
provide a reputable source or be labeled a conspiracy nut. Imgur's community uses sourced information to weed out the maliciously ignorant
chicharrone
https://abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemicals-train-derailed-ohio-originally-reported-data/story?id=97080179 they're definitely hiding this
distraingotnobrakes
Bye bye Cleveland and Pittsburgh
goste
Are they? It’s across all the news and I don’t even live in the US