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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by spacephysics on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:20PM (#34759695)
What’s misinformation about this? Honest question, I think the facts aren’t misinformation, that the US has shot down foreign aerial objects.
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by luxuryballs on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:54PM (#34759932)
that’s what I’m saying, surely the government and military would never lie to the public
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by Aperocky on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:57PM (#34759954)
Could have been there's always been plenty of aerial objects floating around, but it is now politically expedient to do something about it.
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by nonethewiser on Sunday February 12, 2023 @03:20AM (#34760994)
Do you actually think that's the case?
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by krisoft on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:01AM (#34762194)
I actually do. It is dirt cheap to do (on the scale of national budgets) and can provide extra intel.
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by ttyprintk on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:41AM (#34762383)
Fox has latched onto the tethered surveillance balloons along the US-Mexico border as a symbol of Federal attention on the trickle of people.
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by Aperocky on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:24AM (#34762995)
There are no such thing as high altitude tethered balloon, but I'm not surprised that Fox ran with it.
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Re:U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Depa... by tekknik on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:53AM (#34775082)
They in fact said aerostatic and low altitude but it’s good to see you getting your facts before complaining about misinformation.
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