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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by belter on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:46PM (#34758162)
The second object has not been called a balloon by US Air Command. Most interesting are some reports of pilots saying the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes. [1]

Interfering with F-22 sensors? If they sent an airborne jamming platform over US space it's serious.

On a more positive note, now that private observers report the skies over the Artic, Northern Canada and Alaska border, have a constant presence of AWACS and other multiple airplane sorties, the Aliens everybody was talking about here days ago, seem to have vanished...

[1] - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-obj...

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by bombcar on Saturday February 11, 2023 @08:47PM (#34758661)
Pilots always claim sensor interference- it covers any mistakes they may have made.
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by dawdaway on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:31AM (#34761406)
Evidence for this?
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by datavirtue on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:37AM (#34762708)
Look, it was just a weather balloon, folks. Nothing to see here. Sounds familiar.
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by Tozen on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:17AM (#34762285)
F-22 pilots are not scrubs that got the job by luck. To be one, means being among the best. If it is being reported accurately, that the F-22 pilot says there was some kind of interference coming from the object, then there likely really is something to it.
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by belter on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:29AM (#34772316)
Definitely not scrubs...

"How do you become an F-22 pilot?" - https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/e76db/how_do_you_...

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by IAmGraydon on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:58PM (#34765038)
"Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes, but not all pilots reported experiencing that.

Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet."

This article and any other that mentions these two things has absolutely no source for the statement. There is a 0.0% chance F22 pilots are talking to the press, so I really believe this is a complete fabrication.

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