So, it wasn’t an “anomaly” after all.
An object spotted in the skies over Montana on Saturday that was initially dismissed as a “radar anomaly” by the North American Aerospace Command reappeared Sunday over Lake Huron, only to be downed by an American F-16, according to a Department of Defense news release.
And even though the release went out of its way to credit the shootdown order to President Joe Biden, the revelation is disastrous for his administration.
On a Super Bowl Sunday when Biden & Co. were no doubt hoping for a break from a week’s worth of news about China’s aggressiveness that made the White House look paralyzed and weak — at home and abroad — the bulletins kept getting worse.
A “national defense aerospace” condition had to be declared over Lake Michigan, clearing the skies of civilian air traffic for a time because of an unidentified potential threat.
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Then an “airborne object” was shot down over Lake Huron — and it turned out to be the same “radar anomaly” that had sent fighter jets scrambling the day before, the news release stated.
“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.
“We did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assess it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities,” the statement continued. “Our team will now work to recover the object in an effort to learn more.”
It’s great that there wasn’t a “kinetic military threat.”
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On the other hand, it’s doubtful that Mr. and Mrs. America are thinking the Chinese hordes are going to come pouring across the border armed with balloons. Still, it’s reassuring that this particular balloon was apparently low on the kinetic threat scale.
What’s not reassuring, however, is that the United States is being led by a…
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