Illinois Hobby Club Believes Pentagon Shot Down Their $12 Pico Balloon
After the Pentagon dispatched fighter jets to shoot down unidentified objects on February 10, 11, and 12 utilizing heat-seeking AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles at over $400,000 a pop, President Biden belatedly admitted that they could just be harmless weather balloons
“The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research,” Biden said Thursday. But now an Illinois-based hobby group which uses $12 balloons with ham radios for a cheap high-altitude hobby says the Feb. 11 object shot down over Yukon Territory on Feb. 11 likely belongs to them. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden also things this is the likely scenario…
please tell me the white house did not spend the month of february scrambling jets to fire $400,000 missiles at the local hobby club's TWELVE DOLLAR BALLOON
lord have mercyhttps://t.co/4D7DaTncvT
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 16, 2023
A report in Aviation Week, profiles the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) to learn that its silver-coated “pico balloon” was last picked up via radio signal on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and that it was projected to float over central Yukon territory the following day. It disappeared around the time and general location of the Feb.11 F-22 shootdown of an ‘unidentified object’, ordered by the White House.
The report began somewhat hilariously enough:
A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
The Pentagon’s own briefings had described a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it” – and yet still, as the search for debris continues in inclement arctic weather, there’s been no confirmation of exactly what it was shot out of the sky.
According to a further description of the team of hobbyists’ balloon that went missing:
The descriptions of all three unidentified objects shot down Feb. 10-12 match the shapes, altitudes and payloads of the small pico balloons, which can usually be purchased for $12-180 each, depending on the type.
“I’m guessing probably they were pico balloons,” said Tom Medlin, a retired FedEx engineer and co-host of the Amateur Radio Roundtable show. Medlin has three pico balloons in flight in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What’s more is that the hobbyists are so convinced that the Pentagon has been taking pot-shots at mere pico balloons (very expensive pot-shots at that), that some have contacted multiple federal agencies to inform authorities, but apparently to no avail.
Below is an example of the type of transmitter, which is the “payload” dangling under the balloon, which accompanies the high-altitude flights:
“I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,” Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS), told Aviation Week.
Behold the potential major “threat” which required advanced F-22 jets armed with Sidewinder missiles to be deployed last week…
This is a pico balloon, and it may be what your government shot down with heat-seeking AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles, which are worth over $400,000 each pic.twitter.com/c0Lb5EE2zE
— Dave DeCamp (@DecampDave) February 16, 2023
The publication itself, based on what it learned about the pico balloons flying high over North American skies, attempted to alert the FBI, NORAD, the National Security Council (NSC) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense while seeking comment. However, they too were given the runaround.
“The FBI and OSD did not acknowledge that harmless pico balloons are being considered as possible identities for the mystery objects shot down by the Air Force,” wrote Aviation Week.CL
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These are the military geniuses who want to fight a 2 front war at opposite ends of the earth? Sun Tzu call home.
Sun Tzu:
ah, the amused sounds of the PLA’s general staff.
The White House needed a distraction from the Nordstream news (aka POTUS is a terrorist), and rolled this out. Mission accomplished. It’s no more complicated than that.
The finest example of Asymmetric Warfare in recent memory.
Truly the work of an absolute military genius…the return on investment is literally one million percent!!!
$1.2 Million(minimum, probably more) expended by US for missiles, fuel,and wear and tear, vs. one $12 balloon.
The entire 🌍 is laughing 🤣😂, and it’s certainly not laughing with us….even I’m chuckling at the supreme Idiocracy that the 🤡🤡🤡 🌎 the USFEDGOV has created.
And worse yet admitting to it, though that may have been the plan.
Possibly more to it than meets the eye: “Pico balloons combined with amateur/ham radio technology”.
– Quick, we need to ban amateur radio because it interferes with national security –
Ham Radio Operators. Mostly White Racist Terrorists. The balloon being shot down was a warning. These peeps should’ve bought a cellphone. Try showing your Vaccine Passport and Carbon Credit Score with a ham radio at Wal-Mart. The Gov’t did them a favor. Perhaps they were trying to send messages to Russians?? Nyet!
Nellie Ohr and some of the other “Russia Hoax” conspirators were communicating via HAM radios. Are the licenses public records?
Yes, it is all searchable. Anybody who wants to send a signal has to obtain a license and an alphanumeric call sign (pass the technician or general level exam and apply for license). No license necessary to just “listen in”. Whenever you transmit, you have to identify your call sign. Anybody can be looked up by their call sign, and the search reveals name and address.
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp
This doesn’t sound like bullshit to anyone here?
Everything sounds like bullshit when everything is fake and gay.
So much Fake & Gay, so little time.
An apothegm for the ages right there, Farmer.
and…
Everything IS bullshit when everything is fake and gay.
Worried about the E.T.s?
I’m looking forward to a prostate exam or twenty!
My first thought after the balloon shoot-down was can you imagine how easy it would be to bleed a country dry militarily by launching a couple of million balloons?
What a world.
Nah, we got plenty of money! The Fed’s printing presses got plenty of ink.
The ink is probably made in China.
I love the off gassing of the morning paper!
I love the smell of newsprint in the morning. Nothing else smells like that.
“The ink is probably made in China.”
What is not MIC (Made In China. Any other acronym reference is purely coincidental)
Beena loooong time. But is not the ‘paper’ for the $$$$ a ‘Sole Vendor’ ? and for even longer ?
Same here. I was thinking of ordering a box of barroons and launching a couple hundred for shits and giggles. Say five a day for the next month or so… invasion of the killer barroons
Make sure you write “Chinese Spy Balloon” on the side so the F-22 pilots can get a confirmed kill and a little balloon patch on their jet.
“Make sure you write “Chinese Spy Balloon” on the side so the F-22 pilots can get a confirmed kill and a little balloon patch on their jet.”
🤣🤣🤣
..https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2282948/the-us-space-force-logo-and-motto/
Do it. Everyone should.
Make the clown show apparent to everyone.
I actually looked. But by the time I get them there will be a few other shinies that will have come and gone. Nobody but TBP’rs would know what they would be about. Still… its tempting.
If the people at Aliexpress are reading, good manufacturing opportunity here. Pico-Balloons in the shape of flying saucers, with little random radio signal generators. A couple of blinking LEDs might be good to.
I’ll take 20. Pretty sure hundreds of others would too.
If you do, attach a ten foot sheet of aluminum foil beneath it so it flashes in the sun and radar sees it.
Balloons beat the Canadian military. We couldn’t even launch a plane to do anything about them. Justin had to call Joe for help.
Probably more like Klaus calling him and saying “look rent-boy, this is what we are going to do, here are your lines”.
No circus is complete without clowns and balloons. The three ring circus is the three branches of the US Government and the Pentagram is the ring leader. Are you entertained yet?
You win the internet for this year, Boog.
Great way of freshening up the old tired cliche. Clown World indeedee doo.
I for one feel much safer knowing the emperor has no clothes.
Sweet.
imagine what the military would do today with somebody like ‘Lawnchair Larry’
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/06/01/the-man-in-the-flying-lawn-chair
Where the hell is “Space Force” during all of this?
Probably in gender fluidity for service animals training. Unlike the chinks:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19405/china-lasers-hawaii
This would require Upper Atmosphere Force. Biden put Kamalto in charge of the UAF but cannot find enough gay, transsexual, handicapped women of color to fill the ranks.
GAO – “We are not sure but somebody keeps cashing the checks, so we know they are doing something with the money”
It’s more believable than aliens.
Best air defense.
Nobody Believes John Kirby and Karine Jean-Pierre
Here’s where a complete lack of credibility becomes a problem.
And since Joe Biden has nothing to say about any of this, it’s up to Karine Jean-Pierre to explain it.
How well did that go? Outstanding — other than the fact that she has no clue about what NORAD is and thinks the country to our north is Canadia.
We’re governed by people who suck.
We’re governed by liars who suck.
And our enemies are noticing. It isn’t good. Those balloons in and of themselves don’t matter. What matters is the perceived weakness and decline they represent.
Just imagine trying to explain away Joe Biden his son or anything the gov. does.
The irony is, that she’s widely reputed to be skilled with her tongue.
Shot down that barroon, “clearly in step with canadia”
An economic collapse is in our futures. TPTB is just maxing out credit cards before SHTF. The MIC is really bad, these psychopaths don’t give a shit about anything except profits. every country has these people and they get little criticism from the MSM. TPTB is working on a CBDC and other means to control and enslave us all.
Hey can someone smash a ballon with ” Dont shoot its a cell phone ” and an F22 together? Im more of an idea guy…….
Why are people pissed at a couple of half million dollar missiles when we gave over $100 Billion to kill white people in Ukraine?
I believe it was the shoot down over Lake Huron …. the USAF sent TWO(!!!) fighter jets …. sending two missiles …….because one them MISSED!!!!
Are you laughing your ass off?
If not let me rephrase …. one of our fucking fighter jets fired a fucking missile at a fucking small baroon and fucking missed!!!!!!!!!
At zero consequence to the corporate manufacturer.
Just like big pHARMa’s liability immunity.
The big news is that NorthCom/USAF is blowing up things they either can’t or haven’t bothered to identify AT ALL. Even a Fetterman knows that ain’t the way air defense works. I.e. They are just shooting their fancy wad into busy airspace hoping that international air traffic control hand-offs to Buttpig have accounted for 100% of everything. An “unknown” track is 99.9+% usually not hostile. Friendly fire much? Oh well, I guess MSM can just blame the Rushinks so we can eff it up again.
Oh, and about those crates of Stingers we lost in desperately poor and corrupt Ukraine…
How do they spend 400k to build one sidewinder?
Mil-spec, radiation hardened pork barrels.
But the real cost is launching AIM-9s instead of making sure students in Springfield, USA can read and write their way into private sector jobs doing useful things.