Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To   : KY MOFFET
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Feb 13 2023 16:44:00

> Few days later another is reported over Alaskan waters, and shot down.
> Few hours later another was reported over the Yukon, and was also shot
> down by the US Air Force. (Was that yesterday? I've stopped keeping
> track. I gather they didn't bother notifying Hairboy until after the
> fact. Then again, would you??) This looks to me like the military has
> taken things into its own hands; obviously Brandon isn't keeping up.

I believe the Yukon one was yesterday.  There was supposedly another one
shot down this morning over Lake Huron, near the Straits.

> So now we have five...

So now there are six.  They are claiming that the three most recent ones
are different than the ones that were known to be from China.  They are
smaller but were also carrying a "payload."

They (the US and Canada) agreed to shoot one down over land, in the Yukon.
Supposedly Brandon and Trudeau were both involved in that decision, or were
at least notified about it, and Canada gave the US clearance to shoot it
down over their airspace.

> Note that NORAD tracks anything larger than a goose, so it's not like
> they didn't know.

I don't doubt they did know.

> ====

> A story from the Cold War era:

> Objective: steal a bucket of sand from an American beach.

> The Russians send a stealth submarine, which hides off the coast and
> disgorges a scuba diver all in black, who sneaks up to the beach under
> cover of darkness, shovels up the required sand, swims back to the sub,
> and off they go, never once seen by anyone.

> The Chinese send a million tourists to the beach.

LOL, yep.  They probably know all about the sand in British Columbia, for
example.

Mike


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