United States could have just spent a whopping £318k using a missile to shoot down a UFO which may been a local hobbyist's £10 balloon.
The object shot down on Sunday was the third strange object in the sky shot down in the past few days, with even top ranking intelligence officials stumped as to what they could be.A conversation heard between the pilots hurtling through the air reveals their confusion.READ MORE: Russians are 'living in s**t' with 'poverty everywhere,' says top Soviet film star One is heard saying: "I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes." Military officials later described the object as an "octagonal structure".However, it is now being claimed that the object was a balloon belonging to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade.According to its recent blog, a balloon it set off in that are has gone missing.They said: “Pico Balloon K9YO last reported on February 11 at 00:48 zulu near Hagemeister Island after 123 days and 18 hours of flight.“Hagemeister Island is an uninhabited island in the U.S.
state of Alaska, located on the north shore of Bristol Bay at the entrance to Togiak Bay.“The island is 16 miles long, has a land area of 115.9 square miles, and its highest point is 604 feet.
It has no permanent population at the 2000 census. “The 84 hour NOAA Hysplit Trajectory showed Pico Balloon K9YO making the 7th circumnavigation on February 13th around 18:00 zulu, and then traveling north of the Day/Night Change Line.”In plain English, it went missing around the same time US President Joe Biden ordered a rather expensive missile to shoot down a UFO over the area.
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