#spy balloons

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

Truly one of us

[ID] A cropped tweet from Edward Snowden @Snowden reads It's not aliens. I wish it were aliens. [End ID]

[wumingfoundation]

UFOs And The Longing For The Unidentified

During the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 there was an exponential increase in UFO sightings throughout the West. Then, in February 2023, the concept of “Unidentified aerial phenomena” became central to the dispute between the US and China over alleged spy-balloons.

The Italian writing collective Wu Ming recently published UFO 78, a novel whose principal plot is set between March and May 1978. In it, the kidnapping of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades is intertwined with the great wave of UFO sightings that occurred in Italy that year. The novel closely follows another book, La Q di Qomplotto [The Q of Qonspiracy] (2021), in which a member of the Wu Ming collective developed an anticapitalist take on conspiratorial thinking, taking Qanon as his case study.

In the following essay, which appeared on Wu Ming’s blog Giap on February 24th, 2023 before being expanded for publication on Ill Will, the Italian collective interprets the return of UFOs into our collective imagination and the “longing for the unidentified” not only as a symptom of climate anxiety and our  post-pandemic predicament, but also as the manifestation of a "utopian impulse," an attempt to escape a system that forces us to continuously identify ourselves while suffocating any future perspective of radical change.

https://illwill.com/ufos

[louis-massa]

"Watch those wrist rockets!"

Kriffin' spy balloons. This one's about to get blasted by a wrist rocket.

[ivovynckier]

Jeff Koons' balloon dog sculpture is a goner too. Not a good time for balloons, I guess. The hospital clowns and balloon acts must be scared shitless by now.

[danu2203]

[spaceintruderdetector]

Project Mogul (Operation Mogul) / popular science 1948

[takeshi-k0vacs]

They looked at it and were like "this is just a bunch of emo shit, some movie called Goncharov, gays and porn, how does that help us take over the world?" Said they would just stick with Apple and try some weather spy balloons.

We actually have been trying to sell your info but it's all shit and no one wants it

[biglisbonnews]

Government agencies have 30 days to purge devices of Tik Tok Civil servants! Delete your Tik Tok! You've got 30 days, says the White House. In a bid to keep U.S. data safe, all federal agencies must eliminate TikTok from phones and systems and prohibit internet traffic from reaching the company, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young told agencies in a guidance memorandum seen by Reuters. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/02/28/government-agencies-have-30-days-to-purge-devices-of-tik-tok.html

[angelx1992]

[hoveringaboveuranus]

Unidentified flying objects - timeline

4 February: US military shoots down suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina. It had drifted for days over the US, and officials said it came from China and had been monitoring sensitive sites

10 February: US downs another object off northern Alaska which officials said lacked any system of propulsion or control

11 February: An American fighter jet shoots down a "high-altitude airborne object" over Canada's Yukon territory, about 100 miles (160 km) from the US border. It was described as cylindrical and smaller than the first balloon

12 February: US jets shoot down a fourth high-altitude object near Lake Huron "out of an abundance of caution"

[lil-tumbles]

I am Uncomfortable with the way the four recent UFOs that have been downed over the USA are being presented in the same kind of timelines used in history books about the Cold War and world wars. It's just all a little too close to "we see history but continue on repeating it"

[geezerwench]

I'm real glad we get along with Canada.

One of the comments beneath this article:

Text of photo above:

Rev Joe

It is no secret that the White House and high ranking military officials know exactly what was the purpose of the Chinese spy ballon. The Chinese have decoded an alien message that they are ready to make contact with earthlings. It is well known that Area 51 has an alien life form secured in a research laboratory. China also has an alien life form. They recently opened up the corpse and by accident unleashed the Corona Virus. Now there is speculation that aliens from Alpha Centauri , in invisible spacecrafts, are hovering in deep space over China, Russia, Korea, Iran, U.S. and Canadian airspace sending unmanned objects with messages that say “we come in peace”. These aliens want to determine if now is the time to finally reveal themselves to earthlings. Are earthlings by their actions toward others peaceful or violent? Or if they, the aliens, need to destroy earth.

So, in these troubled times, will the aliens finally reveal themselves to us? Or will be the coming of Armageddon? Pray to Jesus for salvation.

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Guess we better REPENT and shit.

[johnnyrobish]

Republicans Pissed Biden Shot Down ‘High-Altitude Object’ Over Alaska

The Pentagon announced that a U.S. fighter jet has shot down a “high-altitude object” in Alaskan airspace Friday, marking the second such encounterin a week after the ploddingcross-country flight by a suspected Chinese spy balloon.  Officials say the object was roughly the size of a car, making it much smaller than the Chinese airship shot down Saturday.

Well then, I guess when it comes down to shooting down “unidentified high-altitude objects,” size doesn’t matter.  Gee, I wonder what the hell it was that was flying so high above Alaska?  The way I see it, it could only be one of two things - Elon Musk’s car, or Sarah Palin’s ego.  We can only hope it wasn’t Santa, on some kind of a test run.  Otherwise, Christmas ’23 is all shot to hell.

Meanwhile, Republicans are up in arms about the matter, first complaining about the cost of shooting it down, and then claiming President Biden shot the thing down way too soon.  Now, while I’m certainly no Republican, I do see their point about shooting it down too soon.  I mean,  as they say, it would be a damn shame if we just shot down a Martian peace delegation.

Of course, folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are quick to remind us that these mystery objects could very well be the evil work of Republican Bond villains Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci, attempting to use unidentified high-altitude objects to drop billions of micro 5G chips from way, way up in the atmosphere - for all of us to inhale.  Boebert and Greene’s motto is “You can never be too cautious, or too paranoid.”  

Anyway, whatever it was, the truth is we really have nothing to fear.  That’s because the MAGAs across our nation have heeded the call and have momentarily paused their attacks on Black History Month, grabbed their AR-15s, ran out into the backyard, and are pointing their weapons up at the night sky.  Say what you want about MAGAs, but its hard not to feel a strong sense of security, once you know these folks are on the job.

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[ivovynckier]

As long as it's not a weather balloon...!

[cosmic-neighbors]

Previous spy balloons that traversed U.S. soil under the  prior administration were classified as UFOs

Were They UFOs or Balloons?

[aroaessidhe]

asexual books: m/m YA

Don’t Let The Forest In - ace mlm MC

Wren Martin Ruins It All - ace mlm MC

A Song of Salvation - 2/3 MCs are mlm and demi

The Spy With The Red Balloon - 1/2 MC is gay & demi

The Witch King - love interest is demi (ace girl SC too)

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