Jimmy Dore: Downed UFOs Were Actually Hobbyists $12 Mylar Balloons

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1. Yes, they can send a F22 to the remote Yukon to shoot down a toy balloon, but they can’t patrol the southern boarder with common helicopters.

2. Yep, Mylar, probably the most highly radar reflective material to exist, to build a ‘spy’ balloon.

3. Iran has many tethered broadcast balloons to transmit radio and TV over wide areas of the Persian gulf. I suppose those never break their mooring lines and go adrift.

4. “Lawn chair Larry” 1982
   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/flying-lawn-chair-180972974/

   LA guy attached balloons to a sears lawn chair made it to 16000 ft among the jets coming into LAX.
   🙂

5. “absurd and hysterical” Wang Yi

   Mr. Yi, you just described the entire character of USZOG culture.

6. The poor pilots, I shot what the “@&” down?!! For what??!! And remember , one missile missed a BALLOON ! This administration is something else… the Chinese must be getting some real chuckles out of all this…..

7. One of the other things they may have been shooting down with $400,000 missiles, are these fancy $800 synthetic large tents, which people use up north when they go ice fishing etc … one of these huge tents offered by Clam Outdoors is even ‘hexagonal’ in shape like that mysterious ‘UFO’

   These multi-person tent-cubes are quite big, sturdy like balloons, and can keep their structure … if they are not fastened down well in Montana or wherever, they can blow into the wind and be carried along by air currents

   Clown world