Um, if they’re gasping for answers, then people are failing to do their jobs. They’re balloons. They were shot down. You’d think all those over-paid government workers would have a clue
A trio of new intrusions leaves America’s leaders grasping for explanations
A deepening national security mystery is threatening a political storm after US fighter jets scrambled three days in a row to shoot down a trio of unidentified aerial objects high over the North American continent.
The flurry of attacks on the unknown crafts came a week after the highly public tracking and ultimate downing of a Chinese balloon suspected of carrying out surveillance. Now, the thin details trickling out of the Pentagon and Capitol Hill about are making an already highly unusual international episode even more bizarre and confusing.
No one – not the White House, the Pentagon or the government of Canada, whose airspace has also been infringed – seems able to say exactly what is going on with these latest downed crafts. This raises questions for top military brass and US spy agencies as well as for the potential safety of civilian aviation. And it creates an information vacuum that Republicans are again using to question President Joe Biden’s leadership.
They’re either lying about knowing what’s going on, or they’re clueless. Both are concerning. And Biden hasn’t really said anything. And both Republicans and Democrats are demanding answers. Where are they coming from? Why are they popping up suddenly over installations? What do they do? What’s their payloads? Is the military catching them early, or missing them? Are they human made or extraterrestrial? Why did the US have to waste a very expensive missile to shoot down one over Canada? Is Canada’s air force too woke/weak to do it themselves?
Meanwhile, China is accusing the U.S. of flying balloons of their airspace (shocker!)
(Yahoo News) China on Monday said more than 10 U.S. high-altitude balloons have flown in its airspace during the past year without its permission, following Washington’s accusation that Beijing operates a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world.
Sure thing, Sparky, sure thing. Maybe we were just returning all the Made In China stuff?
You’d think all those over-paid government workers would have a clue…
HEY! Let’s not make this personal. As we speak, I am sure some over-paid and some paid-just-enough government workers are examining new technology to shoot down baloons better than ever. They should be delivering a proposal to industry in about ten years after spending $1.5 BILLION to look at all the alternatives. I don’t want to give away the ending, but it’s lasers.