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LIST: Unidentified Objects Shot Down So Far Over North America

Posted by FactReal on February 12, 2023

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS SHOT DOWN SO FAR:

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LIST: Unidentified Objects Shot Down So Far Over North America. (Graphics: Fox News)

#1) 2/4/2023, Saturday: Over South Carolina
The U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the coast of South Carolina after it had crossed Alaska, Canada, and the U.S.

#2) 2/10/2023, Friday: Over Alaska
The U.S. military shot down an unknown object over the northern coast of Alaska.

#3) 2/11/2023, Saturday: Over Canada
Another high-altitude object shot down over Canada.

#4) 2/12/2023, Sunday: Over Lake Huron, Michigan
US military shoots down unidentified flying object over Lake Huron in Michigan.

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#4 Unidentified Object: Shot Down over Lake Huron, Michigan (2/12/2023)

Posted by FactReal on February 12, 2023

Fox News reporting: US military shoots down unidentified flying object over Great Lakes region

Rep. Jack Bergman confirmed that the U.S. military has “decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron.

4:42pm ET: Rep. Bergman tells Fox News the object was an ‘octagonal structure’ flying over Lake Huron with altitude about 20,000 feet.

5:00pm ET: Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson provided details on the United States military downing an ‘object’ flying over Lake Huron.

NORAD statement via Breitbart: [Emphasis added]

Today at 2:42 p.m.,… an F-16 fired an AIM9x to successfully shoot down an airborne object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitude in U.S. airspace over Lake Huron in the State of Michigan. (…) North American Aerospace Defense Command detected the object Sunday morning and has maintained visual and radar tracking of it. Based on its flight path and data we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites.

7:18pm ET: Pentagon briefing after fourth ‘unidentified object’ shot down via LiveNOW from Fox:
“A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday, Feb. 12, on orders from President Joe Biden, believed to be the same one tracked over Montana and monitored by the government beginning the night before, the Pentagon said.”

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS SHOT DOWN SO FAR:
#1) 2/4/2023, Saturday: Over South Carolina
The U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the coast of South Carolina after it had crossed Alaska, Canada, and the U.S.

#2) 2/10/2023, Friday: Over Alaska
The U.S. military shot down an unknown object over the northern coast of Alaska.

#3) 2/11/2023, Saturday: Over Canada
Another high-altitude object shot down over Canada.

#4) 2/12/2023, Sunday: Over Lake Huron, Michigan
US military shoots down unidentified flying object over Lake Huron in Michigan



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#3 High-Altitude Object: Shot Down Over Canada (2/11/2023)

Posted by FactReal on February 11, 2023

NORAD Statement on Object over Canada
“Military aircraft are currently operating from Alaska and Canada in support of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) activities. NORAD confirms that we have positively identified a high-altitude airborne object over Northern Canada.”
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NORAD confirms ‘high-altitude airborne object’ over northern Canada
Via Global News – Canada:

Officials with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed an exclusive Global News report Saturday that a “high-altitude airborne object” has been detected over northern Canada.

Global News reported Saturday, citing three security sources, that NORAD was monitoring one or two more objects that may be potential spy balloons.

5:06pm ET: Fox News reporting that Canada the U.S. has shot down the ‘object.’
Via Fox News: Canadian PM Trudeau tweeted:
“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NoradCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.”

7:30pm ET: The Pentagon says the object of unknown origin was first detected Friday over Alaska

According to the Pentagon, NORAD detected the object over Alaska late Friday evening and monitored the object over U.S. airspace with the assistance of the Alaska Air National Guard and was “tracking it closely and taking time to characterize the nature of the object.” “Monitoring continued today as the object crossed into Canadian airspace…A U.S. F-22 Raptor was used to shoot down the object in Canadian airspace using an AIM 9X missile[.]

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS SHOT DOWN SO FAR OVER NORTH AMERICA:
#1) 2/4/2023, Saturday: Over South Carolina.

#2) 2/10/2023, Friday: Over Alaska.

#3) 2/11/2023, Saturday: Over Canada.

RELATED
– Regarding object #2: ‘Object’ shot down on Friday over Alaska penetrated US airspace before being detected: Pentagon

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These Trump Officials Deny Chinese Spy Balloons over US During Trump Admin

Posted by FactReal on February 6, 2023

LIST: These Trump top national security officials deny knowing about Chinese spy balloons occupying U.S. airspace during the Trump administration:
Via Fox News:
– John Bolton, former Trump White House national security adviser
– Robert O’Brien, who served as White House national security adviser from 2019 to 2021,
– Ric Grenell, former acting Director of National Intelligence
– John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence
– Heino Klinck, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia
– Mark Esper, former Trump Defense Secretary
– Chris Miller, former acting Defense Secretary

“It is unclear, at this point, if these activities did take place, and if it was military leadership that chose not to brief civilian leadership on the matter,” the Fox News article notes.

Mike Pompeo also denies it (Archived)

VIDEOS
– John Ratcliffe (Transcript)

Robert O’Brien’s interview with Laura Ingraham: It’s ‘highly unlikely’ the CCP flew spy balloons without us knowing.

CHANGING NEWS STORIES
Washington Post now says ‘near Florida and Texas’ (Archive):
Byron York reported:

A slightly different story emerged in the Washington Post, which reported that the Pentagon knew of “past Chinese surveillance balloons near Florida and Texas.” Wait a minute: Near Florida and Texas? What does near mean? Were the balloons over those states? Were they offshore but over U.S. territorial waters? The Washington Post suggested the Pentagon was not being entirely clear.

The Associated Press (AP) later adds ‘brieftly’ to its Chinese spy balloon report [Emphasis added] (Archive)

[S]imilar Chinese balloons transitioned the continental United States brieftly” at least three times during the Trump administration…”

MORE INFO NEEDED
Byron York (Archive) wrote today:

At this point, nothing is clear. In a text exchange, one Capitol Hill Republican, eager to question the administration on events, saw three possible explanations. One, the Defense Department is “conflating wildly different incidents, that is, balloons around Hawaii or Key West vs. crossing middle America,” a conflation he called “partisan spin.” Two, the Pentagon really did only figure out that the Chinese were flying over the continental U.S. after the fact, which he called “a huge military intelligence failure.” Or three, the military actually tracked the flights at the time but failed to inform civilian leadership of what was happening, which he called “a huge civilian-military scandal if so.”

The answers are urgently needed. Allowing a large, highly visible airship presumably packed with intelligence equipment from a foreign adversary to saunter across the U.S. is a big, big deal.

This story may be updated as more information comes in.

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Flashback: Obama Facilitated Nuclear & Missile Technology to China

Posted by FactReal on September 11, 2022

The Left wants us to forget how Democrat Barack Obama actually gave information to the enemy that endangered our national security.
They say Trump had “classified documents” at his Mar-a-Lago home (which is guarded by the Secret Service agents) that could put our nation at risk. (But Trump, as President, was able to declassify/classify documents. The Espionage Act does not apply to the President.)

However, Obama gave information to our enemies that put the United States at risk. Here below are news articles from 2009 and 2015. (Hat tip: Mark Levin – see his video below.)

Obama loosens missile technology controls to China
By: Washington Times (Oct. 15, 2009)

President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department — a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.

Obama just made a quiet nuclear deal with [communist] China
By: Business Insider (May 11, 2015)

Not so typical was something that didn’t appear that day on the president’s public schedule: notification to Congress that he intends to renew a nuclear cooperation agreement with China.

The deal would allow Beijing to buy more U.S.-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess plutonium from spent fuel. China would also be able to buy reactor coolant technology that experts say could be adapted to make its submarines quieter and harder to detect.

The formal notice initially didn’t draw any headlines. Its unheralded release on April 21 reflected the administration’s anxiety that it might alarm members of Congress and nonproliferation experts who fear China’s growing naval power — and the possibility of nuclear technology falling into the hands of third parties with nefarious intentions.

OTHER DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTS WHO PUT OUR NATION AT RISK
Flashback: Bill Clinton Gave China Missile Technology
Flashback: Biden Justice Dept. Put End to Program Fighting Threats from China

Mark Levin spoke about all this on Hannity’s show

(Sept. 8, 2022)
Transcript: Mark Levin: Bill Barr on TV more than Erectile Dysfunction Commercials…and How Clinton, Obama, and Biden Gave National Security Info to the Enemy:

Constitutional scholar Mark Levin: It’s a Cover Up!

Why is the White House leaking information to the Washington Post? Why hasn’t Garland recused himself? Wait—isn’t Trump being indicted for his Federal tax returns? Or was it the emoluments clause? No, no—January 6th. Guess what folks, it’s all a scam and a cover up.


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**Breaking: Author Salman Rushdie Stabbed in New York

Posted by FactReal on August 12, 2022

FROM THE “RELIGION OF PEACE”
Via Fox News:

An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.

Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.

Iran has also offered over $3 million in reward for anyone who kills Rushdie.

Via JihadWatch:

The Iranian death fatwa is still in effect, and of course Iran is now emboldened by Biden’s weakness and appeasement.

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