The now-retired Iranian general even had the airship on his radar and was about to fire on it when his weapons system jammed ” . This account was a celebrated case in the UFO ghetto that even members of the Aviary, often given to scientific debunking, allowed. “In 1976, an Iranian Air Force General named Parviz Jafari in an F-4 jet chased what appeared to be a solid-state aerial vehicle ‘comparable to that of a 707 tanker,’ Kean writes, ‘with flashing red, green, orange and blue lights.’ This account – the only of its kind that I’ve come across – triggered memories of the report in Leslie Kean’s 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record: (which I quoted in my book, The Space Pen Club). Its headline read: Baffled pilots who shot down mystery object over Alaska say it ‘interfered with sensors’. That checked the box for a genuine UFO as described in the reliable literature that’s out there.īut of all the clippings I saved, and broadcast media I ogled, reporting from the bottom-of-the-barrel journalism of The Daily Star ultimately got my attention. But the one shot down over Alaska reportedly was gray and oblong. Since the balloonery began, as a self-taught observer of these events and an alleged experiencer of high strangeness, I remained mostly quiet as I collected stories and opinions while this strange saga unfolded. So basically, this would amount to a type of conditioning – show some but don’t tell all. However, if we are in a truly semi-hazy disclosure period, and somebody somewhere in charge of UFO/UAP information dissemination has finally gotten truth-telling religion on topic, maybe they would allow a half-truth that objects were, in fact, blasted out of the sky while obscuring the other half-truth of what they were, or who owned them. I might be mistaken, but the last time I looked, bona fide shoot-downs of extraterrestrial spacecraft would likely be classified at such a high level, it would take Jacob’s Ladder to learn of this feat. VanHerck, the commander of the Air Force’s Northern Command, said, ‘I haven’t ruled out anything at this point.'” UFOtwitter and its Musky first cousins went DEFCON batshit. Then re-quoting A ir Force General Glen VanHerck in the Times: “Asked during a news conference on Sunday whether he had ruled out extraterrestrial origins, Gen. Mediaite went so far in its reporting as to run the following headline about the balloon incidents: NORAD Commander Doesn’t Rule Out Aliens in Spate of Unidentified Objects, New York Times Alters Story About It. While defense officials are being hilariously tight-lipped over what’s behind the spate of aggressive anti-UFO actions, the Minnesota airmen’s courageous efforts send a strong message to any would-be invaders - whether from a galaxy far, far away, or just across the border in Wisconsin - that the Gopher State’s airspace will not be violated.” One story recapped that news in an almost breathless, cheerleader-like fashion: “A Duluth-based aircrew was responsible for shooting down an unidentified flying object over Lake Huron yesterday. Even Governor Tim Walz, who presides over my state in Minnesota, flew his balloon shoot-down freak flag, noting publicly in a Tweet that the squad who brought down the object over Lake Huron were North Star State homeboys. There were three incidents in the space of a few days (and right after we 86-ed the infamous Chinese spy balloon on February 4)! It was another field day for talking heads, military pilots, and reporters from the mighty New York Times to the lowly tabloids like The Daily Star. Less than a month after the Bursa brouhaha, a series of objects that were either “balloons” or unidentified flying objects of some kind appeared over North America between February 3-5, sparking another round of debate and speculation. No, there weren’t any UFOs, and it sure as hell weren’t ETs arriving in a spiraling, gigantic drag queen plume worthy of Professor Dumbledore’s handiwork at Hogwarts. Then the experts science-plained it away as merely an oddly shaped, brightly colored cloud: Go back to your hovels and binge-watch your streams. Vivid vids, and fab, almost flower-petaled-looking photos bloomed everywhere of the towering, unidentified sky thing.
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