This is a popular sport on the lake I live on because there are two spots where the wind swirls just right due to the shape of the land.
This is not my lake but I get to watch people doing this near by.
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At this rate, we’ll never meet any extraterrestrials.
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Well, there’s meet…
… and meet. 
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Imagine if there was a rigid airship manufacturer with a history of doing business with Lockheed Martin?
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If this keeps up maybe my embarrassingly high playtime in XCOM will turn into an exciting new career opportunity!
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Hopefully not as an X-COM trained gambler. Otherwise you’d go broke when every bet with a 95% chance of success still failed.
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Luckily X-COM training only covers how to send hapless rookies into 95% chance situations; so I won’t be going bankrupt; I’m just some sort of invisible management-entity.
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Exactly.
I wonder about the colour of the object, for instance.
Octarine, mayhaps?
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i’m still somewhat amazed that the military’s seemingly only capability is to shoot missles at unknown objects from fast flying fighter jets over us territory.
if there aren’t clear reconnaissance photos: i’m shocked
that they don’t have drones capable of taking down drones? that also seems improbable.
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They had photos but time travel or something or other retrieved the photos.
It’s complicated.
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Third, surely. One of them was brought down over Canada. So 4th in North America.
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Didn’t Russian media complain about “where are our kites over Texas” or some such nonsense?
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“Why are we suddenly being surveilled/intrusioned by so many ‘thingies’ all of a sudden!?”
“well, y’see, NORAD got tired off all the ‘false’ alarms, oh roughly during the Clinton administration, and turned off the “beep if something strange floats over” switch; and they kinda forgot it was off until the big white Chinese balloon… so, well you see how it’s going now that it’s been flipped back on…”
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Oh, its probably aliens!
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Four in total shot down by US aircraft because the one shot down over Canada was also downed by a US fighter (although a Canadian fighter and other aircraft were also present).
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I keep fixating on how the missiles are detonated against balloons or other objects capable of hovering for days or even weeks.
With so little “there”, how does the missile trigger? Proximity sensors, inductive sensors, IR, must need some significant hardware to trigger?
Or can they be detonated by remote, perhaps the polite just eyeballs the timing?
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Certainly the one over Canada.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Please don’t be offended. (Sticks pinky out to sip some Red Rose) 
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