The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade
Posted on 02/19/2023 3:09:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the UFOs shot down last weekend by the US Air Force with a $400,000 missile may have simply been a $12 balloon belonging to an Illinois enthusiast club, a report said.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week on Thursday that it fears one of its diligently tracked gasbags that recently went missing was the mystery object taken out by the military over Canada on Saturday.
The Pico Balloon — silver-coated, cylindrically shaped object — reported its last position at 38,910 feet off the west coast of Alaska on Friday.
By Saturday, based on the balloon’s projected path, it would have been over the central part of the Yukon Territory around the same time a military Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same area of Canada, the outlet reported.
The NIBBB — a group of enthusiasts dedicated to creating, releasing and tracking homemade balloons — declared its K9YO device “missing in action” on Saturday.
The K9YO balloon had circumnavigated the globe six times during a 123-day span before its tracking device went dark Friday. Such balloons usually float around until they’re brought down by bad weather or damaged.
The NIBBB’s balloon was equipped with a small GPS transmitter and an antenna, allowing the group to track it with a ham radio.
The Air Force used Sidewinder missiles in its targeted attacks against the Chinese spy balloon downed earlier this month and the mystery UFOs taken down last week, Fortune reported. Each missile comes at a price tag of roughly $400,000.
Pico Balloons, however, typically fall between $12 and $180 each depending on the type, Aviation Week reported.
The US downed airborne objects over Alaska on Friday and Lake Huron on Sunday,
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Way to go, Joe, way to go.
Stand up, Chuck
Biden: "We don't really know as it was blown up real good."
posted like a dozen times already.
I am sure china, north korea, russia, and probably cartels etc are manufacturing or acquiring by the thousands as I type this.
I wonder if we went to war how long before we run out of those spendy munitions? How long could we wage a high tech war?
This sounds like the economic programs the Dems always follow.
I hope the FBI has put all those domestic terrorists in the “bottle balloon brigade militia” on the No Fly list
The important thing is that Biden protected us....a brilliant CIC.
Balloon Pop was a mean dude. No joke.
Wouldn’t you think that if they were seeing unidentified objects being shot down, they would have contacted authorities where their balloon was so as to not get popped?
Actually it took 2 $400,000 missiles to bring it down. The Canadian Premier stated that the UFO was “defeated”.
Failed to pay F*ck José Xiden his $1.20...
Very strong circumstantial evidence.
Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade. NIBBB. Free people having fun.
Their blog is totally down now.
They seem scared and put out that they are not claiming it was their balloon.
Then their blog went dead. One must use Wayback Machine to see it now.
This could be because they got a huge bump up in traffic.
President Retard protecting America by shooting down our own hobby balloons
They don’t get any dumber than that
I think it is really funny. Zero tolerance for balloons.
Never go full retard.
“ The Canadian Premier stated that the UFO was “defeated””
The hobby balloon was defeated by our mighty fighter jets
Give me a freakin break 🙄
Pathetic
—” contacted authorities where their balloon was so as to not get popped?”
A Ham radio writer did exactly that!
But big government is, kind of big and it was close to break time and...
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