US closes airspace over Lake Michigan; “Object” at 20k ft shot down over Lake Huron

Cool

If you click the U upper right on ADSB exchange it only shows military aircraft.

Isn't it too cold to be closing down airspaces?

Imagine not giving a shite about the Super Bowl. It's pretty sweet

You beat me to it

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If surveillance and spying was an act of war, everyone would be at war with everyone.

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We flew U2s over the USSR on the reg. Its kinda like stealing signs in baseball, “cheating” but all part of the game

What about the CIA blowing up nord stream

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US closes airspace over Lake Michigan

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It’s hard to imagine this country allowing a balloon to hover so long over our airspace before it was eventually taken down. Had this had been during the Cold War, it wouldn’t have even had a split second after being spotted before it was taken out, most probably the second it flew above our waters or the second it crossed over land. I’m afraid that we simply have the absolute worse leadership in a time such as this where we absolutely need strong leadership, but alas our leadership just serves as encouragement for our adversaries to do stuff like this. They aren’t threatened in the slightest, and that disrespect shows.


How long would Cold War America allow a communist country’s ballon to spy on us over our nuclear missiles? They wouldn’t have allowed it to even come to that, but Joe let’s it send it’s information to China, and take as many pictures as it likes until Joe FINALLy takes it out over the Atlantic Ocean. Well, mission accomplished for China.