The US mission, which successfully shot down the ‘metallic balloon’ over Lake Huron last Sunday, cost the military nearly a million dollars, as the pilots’ first shot at the UFO missed.
The authorities of the The United States government remains uncertain about what unidentified flying objects are that it has ordered to be shot down since last February 4 when it attacked a balloon that China claims was a meteorological object.
Relations between the two superpowers have been significantly strained since the The United States shot down the Chinese balloon that was flying over its territory, which according to Washington was trying to obtain information from military installations.
Of the so-called “unidentified flying objects,” Washington claims to know nothing or almost nothing: neither their origin, nor their use, nor their nature. The only thing that seems clear to him is that none of them presented a direct military threat, but they potentially endangered civilian air traffic, so President Joe Biden ordered fighter jets to shoot them down.
The Americans do not blame China for the moment for the three mysterious “objects” shot down in the last three days: on Friday over Alaska (northwest), on Saturday over Yukon, in northwestern Canada and on Sunday over Lake Huron in the northern United States.
pilot audio
Audio emerged Tuesday of the moment F-16 fighter jets locked on a UFO as they prepared to shoot it down over Lake Huron, as perplexed pilots struggled to define what exactly they were seeing.
The object shot down over Michigan on Sunday was the third mystifying entity to be shot down in US airspace in three days. Despite a Pentagon memo describing the flying object as a “small metallic balloon”, audio of the conversation from inside the planes revealed that the pilots did not know how to define a UFO.
“I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes,” one of the pilots can be heard saying, after coming face to face with the object.
Military officials later described the object as an “octagonal structure,” which was attacked from the sky because it was “a hazard to flight safety and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities.”
“It looks like something… there’s some kind of object that’s distended… it’s hard to tell, it’s quite small,” he says. The pilots were also concerned about colliding with the object as they could only see it up close, leading to a confused discussion about what the actual shape was, later described by officers as “octagonal”. “I’m going to call it a container,” says one of the pilots. ‘I really can’t tell what the shape is.’ “His size, that would be a challenge, he’s so slow and so small I just can’t see him.” Notably, the mystifying UFO moved at a much slower speed than fighter jets, making it difficult for the pilots to catch exactly what they were looking at.
Later in the audio the pilots can be heard giving more details about the size and shape of the flying object. One of them says the object is “definitely smaller than a car,” while another says it was the size of a “four-wheeler.” Military officials have also described the entity as having “a payload strapped under it.” “In the guidance pod, I can’t tell if it’s metal or what, but I can see lines coming down below, but I can’t see anything below,” says a pilot. ‘You can definitely see chains underneath.’
While they agree that the balloon is something shiny or metallic, the pilots again struggle to notice what the actual color of the object is. One says it looked “blackish”, while the other says “it looks dark, but I can get a good reflection of the sun”.
first failed missile
The planes, using AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles at a cost of $400,000 per shot, had two attempts to get the object out of the sky. The ruling was confirmed on Tuesday by the Pentagon’s top general, Mark Milley, noting the dangers posed by continued UFO sightings within US airspace. ‘Yes, the first shot missed,’ he said.
The object was “removed” over Lake Huron by a pair of F-16CM “Bulldogs” from the 148th Fighter Wing. The fighters departed from Madison, Wisconsin, around 10:30 a.m. after an alert that turned into a live intercept, They explain in The Drive, medium that also shared the audio of which they review is courtesy of Mike in Southwest Wisconsin. In addition to the Vipers, at least one KC-135 tanker from Pittsburgh and one E-3 AWACS radar aircraft from Oklahoma also participated in the operation.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added that the stray Sidewinder missile landed safely in the lake, while the second one fired by the F-16 struck the object from the sky.
The White House jokes about suggestions that aliens are involved in UFO sightings, yet officials have been under increased pressure to explain recent events.
The presence of these four high-altitude objects this month prompted the White House to announce that it is creating a new UFO task force to study the security threat posed by unidentified objects invading US airspace.
Considering that the security of civilian air transport was compromised, combat planes were sent: on Friday and Saturday the Army opted for an F-22 fighter, one of the most sophisticated, and on Sunday for the F-16 model, less advanced .
On Friday and Saturday, over Alaska and the Canadian Yukon region, respectively, the operation was uneventful: according to the Pentagon, one missile was fired each time, hitting the target.
But on Sunday, this time over Lake Huron in the northern United States, the plane missed its first shot, and it was a second missile that finally destroyed the “object.” (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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