LMCane said:

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anyone want to take a guess why we are having to scramble F-22s to take out high altitude threats

and not shooting them down with our ground based missile defense systems?

good to know that in the event of a real war we have to wait to give orders from Biden, to Trudeau, to the Air Force Commander at Elmendorf, to NORAD to scramble planes and wait 15 minutes for them to reach altitude and range.

because in real life, incoming enemy munitions are just going to wait around for us to get our act together.

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Rockdoc said:

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Another object north of Havre MT right now according to MT congressman
Congressman may be full of ****

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A new NOTAM has been issued by the FAA for an area over Havre, MT. The airspace has been defined as "National Defense Airspace." Unclear if it is related to another "unknown" object.

— Global: Military-Info (@Global_Mil_Info) February 12, 2023

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F-35 fighter jets were sent up to investigate after the object was first detected on Thursday, according to a US official. Kirby told reporters that the first fly-by of US fighter aircraft happened Thursday night, and the second happened Friday morning. Both brought back "limited" information about the object.

But the pilots later gave differing reports of what they observed, the source briefed on the intelligence said.

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.

The conflicting eyewitness accounts are partly why the Pentagon has been unable to fully explain what the object is, the source briefed on the matter said.

In a statement Saturday, US Northern Command said the command has no new information to share about the object's "capabilities, purpose or origin," but noted that recovery efforts are being affected by Arctic weather conditions, "including wind chill, snow and limited daylight."

The statement added that "fighter aircraft" downed the "high altitude airborne object" on Friday following an order from Biden and said recovery operations for the remains of the object continue Saturday in coordination with the FBI and local law enforcement.

Kirby said Friday that Biden was first briefed on the object on Thursday evening, as "soon as the Pentagon had enough information." It "did not appear to be self-maneuvering," Kirby said.

It's unclear what the object looks like, or where it came from. On Friday, Ryder said it was traveling north east across Alaska. He declined to provide a physical characterization, only saying that it was "about the size of a small car" and "not similar in size or shape" to the Chinese surveillance balloon that was downed off the coast of South Carolina on February 4.

"We're calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now," Kirby said. "We don't know who owns it whether it's state-owned or corporate-owned or privately-owned, we just don't know."

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Huh, this doesn’t seem to follow what Representative Rosendale said earlier at all which was that an “Unknown Object” was detected and that the Department of Defense was planning to continue tracking it tomorrow morning. https://t.co/Uh7d6jGJWp

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 12, 2023

NORAD has just stated that an “Anomaly” was detected earlier over Northern Montana which caused a NOTAM to be issued and Combat Aircraft to be dispatched to Investigate, however the Aircraft found nothing to be at the Location although NORAD will continue to Investigate.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 12, 2023

This picture currently going around purportedly showing the “Unknown Object” in the Sky over Northern Montana is actually just Venus and Jupiter. https://t.co/VoqsRS6GYD

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 12, 2023

Dr. Mephisto said:

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Nobody respects FJB.

He's an international joke.

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justcallmeharry said:

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BREAKING NORAD following 1 object in North America, potentially spy balloons pic.twitter.com/P9LYSUcuhO

— john (@johnhackerla) February 11, 2023

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Likely all these scrambles for “objects” are not because objects just started flying around. But because A) NORAD expanding its radar hits of interest to include balloons and smaller objects. B) It’s political, so WH told Pentagon told NORAD to intercept immediately if any doubt.

— Tom Rogan (@TomRtweets) February 12, 2023

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LMCane said:

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anyone want to take a guess why we are having to scramble F-22s to take out high altitude threats

and not shooting them down with our ground based missile defense systems?

good to know that in the event of a real war we have to wait to give orders from Biden, to Trudeau, to the Air Force Commander at Elmendorf, to NORAD to scramble planes and wait 15 minutes for them to reach altitude and range.

because in real life, incoming enemy munitions are just going to wait around for us to get our act together.

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An F-22 sortie and an AIM-9 is a lot cheaper than a missile that probably isn't even covering whatever part of Canadian airspace this thing was

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Get Off My Lawn said:

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From what I'm seeing (publicly advertised numbers), the F-15 has a fractional edge over the F-22. So if there is a material difference, then again - it's valuable data points to the enemy.

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Mathguy64 said:

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Time to dust off an SR-71, slap couple of Sidewinders on it, and start kicking ass.

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Not a Bot said:

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NORAD has just stated that an “Anomaly” was detected earlier over Northern Montana which caused a NOTAM to be issued and Combat Aircraft to be dispatched to Investigate, however the Aircraft found nothing to be at the Location although NORAD will continue to Investigate.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 12, 2023

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Mathguy64 said:

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Those birds don't have the ceiling.

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The Canadian Military has also reportedly determined what the Object was but has decided against releasing this Information.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 12, 2023