US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada

Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by krapp on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:49PM (#34757745)

> Because at least the 2nd object wasn’t, it was described as a cylinder about the size of a car

Source?

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by stevenhuang on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:15PM (#34757935)

> One official told ABC News that the object was “cylindrical and silver-ish gray” and gave the “balloon-like” appearance of floating without “any sort of propulsion”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/alaska-myste...

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by 00deadbeef on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:17PM (#34757953)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-high-altitude-obje...

> It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said.

https://news.sky.com/story/us-shoots-down-unknown-object-fly...

> The object, shot down on the order of President Joe Biden, was flying at a high altitude of about 40,000ft and was the size of a small car, the White House said.

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by krapp on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:24PM (#34757996)

Ok. To be fair, all of that could still describe a balloon. Per the ABC news article:

    "It did not appear to have maneuverability capability, he said. "It was virtually at the whim of the wind."

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by golem14 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:44PM (#34758150)

Sounds like a zeppelin

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by andrewflnr on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:20PM (#34758426)

Yeah, I know it's possible to create a blimp that size, since I've seen smaller ones as toys.

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