Jives Miguel Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Surprised there's not a thread for this already. Starting on Friday night there have been multiple objects of shot down in American and Canadian airspaces. Their origin and purpose still a total mystery https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64620064 The prevailing theory at the minute seems to be that after the Chinese balloon a few weeks ago the US realised their radar parameters were filtering out all slow moving objects, and that these are likely more balloon/drone type objects. Or maybe its aliens? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Were they spotted after Sam Smith took those troosers off? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Nobody has made the Harry Kane Penalty joke yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Do balloons fly or could these be unidentified floating objects? Fortunately it’s the same initialism so the thread title won’t be affected either way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 1 hour ago, coprolite said: Do balloons fly or could these be unidentified floating objects? Fortunately it’s the same initialism so the thread title won’t be affected either way. Greenied for calling it an initialism. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 "Tharg, take the balloon down and extend a welcome from our planet to them. Make sure you tell them we want to work together in peace. Tharg, are you receiving me...? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb_diamond Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Brian Cox cutting through it all on twitter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 1 hour ago, The Skelpit Lug said: "Tharg, take the balloon down and extend a welcome from our planet to them. Make sure you tell them we want to work together in peace. Tharg, are you receiving me...? Tharg's been here since 1977 Quarquam blag what a grexnix. A Rigellian hotshot for you. Splundig vir thrigg, squaxx dek Thargo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 In WWII the Japanese equivalent of the V1 was a balloon bomb called Fu-Go. It was designed to float over the Pacific from Honshu and land in North America and the incendiary device would set the US forests alight It didn't work very well. Landing in remote areas they would be discovered over the decades after the end of the war. The remains of one was found as recent as 2014. The one practical outcome was that the Japanese had by accident discovered the jet stream air current. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) 25 minutes ago, tamthebam said: Tharg's been here since 1977 Quarquam blag what a grexnix. A Rigellian hotshot for you. Splundig vir thrigg, squaxx dek Thargo Edited February 13, 2023 by Florentine_Pogen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 9 minutes ago, tamthebam said: In WWII the Japanese equivalent of the V1 was a balloon bomb called Fu-Go. It was designed to float over the Pacific from Honshu and land in North America and the incendiary device would set the US forests alight It didn't work very well. Landing in remote areas they would be discovered over the decades after the end of the war. The remains of one was found as recent as 2014. The one practical outcome was that the Japanese had by accident discovered the jet stream air current. One of these was found by a school trip into the forest. When somebody touched the bomb, it exploded. Five children and a pregnant woman were killed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 16 minutes ago, tamthebam said: It didn't work very well. Landing in remote areas they would be discovered over the decades after the end of the war. The remains of one was found as recent as 2014. Make that 2019, near McBride, British Columbia…but the 2014 one (near Lumby, B.C.) had a live bomb that had the RCN explosives people involved to demo it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 5 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: 4 hours ago, Alert Mongoose said: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 2 hours ago, cb_diamond said: Brian Cox cutting through it all on twitter. You can take the boy out of Lochee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Deans Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Bit of a fuss about hee haw. After the debacle of Afghan and Putins emboldenment the U S is thinking shooting a couple balloons will give them kudos. No it won't. The West is in as big a mess as I've ever seen. Sad times. Nae leadership. Nae brains 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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