Temporary Flight Restriction Imposed Over Lake Michigan (MAJOR UPDATES)
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Source: MSNBC
NBC News' Monica Alba reports that a temporary flight restriction has been set over Lake Michigan due to Department of Defense activity. The restriction comes after U.S. fighter jets shot down two high-altitude objects over Alaska and Canada and a week after the recovery of a Chinese surveillance balloon shot down near South Carolina.
Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/temporary-flight-restriction-imposed-over-lake-michigan-163207237998
Now $&it's getting weird.
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UPDATE 5: US military shoots down high-altitude object over Lake Huron on Sunday
The US military shot down another high-altitude object over Lake Huron on Sunday afternoon, according to a US official and a congressional source briefed on the matter.
The operation marks the third day in a row that an unidentified object was shot down over North American airspace. An unidentified object was shot down over northern Canada on Saturday. On Friday, an unidentified object was shot down in Alaska airspace by a US F-22.
And last weekend, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was taken down by F-22s off the coast of South Carolina.
Earlier Sunday, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan tweeted that she had received a call from the Department of Defense saying that the US military has an extremely close eye on an object above Lake Huron.
Just got a call from @DeptofDefense our military has an extremely close eye on the object above Lake Huron, Slotkin said in a tweet on Sunday. Well know more about what this was in the coming days, but for now, be assured that all parties have been laser-focused on it from the moment it traversed our waters.
Yesterday over Montana today Michigan area
ananda
(28,989 posts)and our DoD is starting to catch up with it
after the last admin just did, basically, nothing.
Qutzupalotl
(14,409 posts)We just recently developed the ability to detect these things.
DownriverDem
(6,266 posts)Hope nothing happens.
PlutosHeart
(1,354 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,248 posts)ToxMarz
(2,173 posts)Maybe they have some new $trillion anti-ballon technology they're trying to sell.
James48
(4,465 posts)Whatever it is, Im looking for it. I dont see anything yet.
ruet
(10,042 posts)There were supposedly military assets in the sky including an E3.
James48
(4,465 posts)Circling over northern Lake Michigan.
ruet
(10,042 posts)Weird that they show the tanker tracks but nothing else.
James48
(4,465 posts)During interceptor operations, transponders are off.
ruet
(10,042 posts)why leave the tankers in the clear? Kind'a gives away the op, no?
riversedge
(70,825 posts)maybe.
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CloudWatcher
(1,862 posts)I get the feeling we're being a bit silly and shooting at anything that moves. There really
are several hundred weather balloons launched every day.
NutmegYankee
(16,225 posts)They go up and up until they burst around 80-100k feet. And it only takes about 2-3 hours.
Igel
(35,459 posts)The idea is to use helium. At altitude the gas expands enough to rupture the balloon.
Lower pressure, just hot air, and maybe you can get it up high enough to work but not rupture?
NutmegYankee
(16,225 posts)They launch 180+ of these every day.
ruet
(10,042 posts)The $860 billion US defense apparatus can't identify a weather balloon? Once? Maybe.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)intrepidity
(7,481 posts)Cheezoholic
(2,083 posts)2naSalit
(87,491 posts)was one of the design engineers for the AWCS system. That it is still in use as a vital tool for the military more than 40 years after his passing is interesting as well.
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VGNonly
(7,553 posts)F-16s were sent all the from Madison WI (Truax Field) rather than the 180th Fighter Wing based in Toledo. F-16s are based in Toledo and regularly practice over Lake Huron.
ruet
(10,042 posts)There are bases in MI too.
VGNonly
(7,553 posts)near Lake St. Clair. However the A-10 Thunderbolts (Warthogs) based there are not ideal interceptors. All of the former AF bases in Michigan: Sawyer, Kinchloe and Wurtsmith have been closed.
ruet
(10,042 posts)James48
(4,465 posts)They first picked up whatever this was over Wisconsin. It floated over northern Michigan before being shot down over the lake.
My thought is they decided to wait until it wasnt over land.
Captain Zero
(6,944 posts)Where all their little buddies are stored?
Half-kidding.
slightlv
(3,025 posts)with some type of information. Mufon is going to go nuts with conspiracy theories. With everything else we have out there, we really don't need that added on to it.