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Advanced_Shoulder_56 t1_j96xgfk wrote

Did someone actually say they were von numan probes? Or weren't or... you know.

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DaveKellett OP t1_j96y362 wrote

oh gosh no...that's just hyperbole for the joke. But for a few days there, the sci-fi writer in me was like why is General VanHerck saying “We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason.”

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3vi1 t1_j97m9j5 wrote

That reason being that they didn't want to look like dumbasses if they turned out to be sophisticated drones.

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DaveKellett OP t1_j97rl69 wrote

Mayhaps! they were bonkers inconsistent for about a week there

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Dovienya55 t1_j98oz1w wrote

That's okay, Bob was a bit of an asshole anyways.

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Geoclasm t1_j98pzbm wrote

i must be out of the loop. i know the US used a million dollar fighter jet to launch a hundreds of thousands of dollars missile at a fucking... great big balloon... and some instruments were adjusted to sense objects of that type better... and since then many more were found... but that's as far as I've kept up with this crap -_-;

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fitzroy95 t1_j990z3l wrote

Multiple balloons shot down by US fighters, 1 was a Chinese one, all the rest were US local and a result largely from mass hysteria

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Sixhaunt t1_j9ebtec wrote

Given he goes with Apple maps, maybe he really is just incompetent

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