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I'm a native German speaker. "Verfügbar bis 19.05.2028" means that it's available online until that date, i.e. for 2 years. "NDR Fernsehen | NDR Info | 19.05.2026 | 21:45 Uhr" tells you when the clip was aired on NDR TV. 2:00 "The Charité...

It makes a difference whether the object you're intercepting is at high altitude or slowly parachuting down, I expect. Edit: one reason being that a parachute is much easier to snag

Altitude might also make a difference as to even being able to hit it with anything other than a missile, if the balloon was high above the flight ceiling of the intercepting aircraft.

Here's the official release combined with the earlier leak's OSD, this actually give slightly more motion info, as you can see more of the background behind the redaction boxes - although the leaked version has some duplicated frames

Here's the official release combined with the earlier leak's OSD, this actually give slightly more motion info, as you can see more of the background behind the redaction boxes - although the leaked version has some duplicated frames

If you open https://video.sitrec.org, you can import or drag in a video file to view. But more usefully, you can drag in (or copy and paste) the URL of - A Metabunk thread that mentions a PR video number in the title, e.g...

I'd suggest a long recording as well, get a lot of them if you can, it will make it easier to see if it matches up or not.

have a look at the Sitrec link above, move around the view in the left window to see the geometry. These are specular reflections off the flat bottoms of the satellites.

I was just coming in to make the same point Short, isolated contrail segments are usually caused by an aircraft briefly passing through a thin layer of very cold, ice-supersaturated air where contrails can form or persist, while the surrounding...

Altitude might also make a difference as to even being able to hit it with anything other than a missile, if the balloon was high above the flight ceiling of the intercepting aircraft.

They might be in a clean area. As @JMartJr pointed out, you don PPE before entering a possibly hazardous environment. The hospital authorities must have agreed to any filming. If it was felt that it was beneficial to have a film crew in a...

There's concern (perhaps too much concern) about having something unknown drop in a populated area. That's why they think large bodies of water are ideal places for them.

It makes a difference whether the object you're intercepting is at high altitude or slowly parachuting down, I expect. Edit: one reason being that a parachute is much easier to snag

Found a couple of (ad-ridden) articles explaining why Sidewinder missiles, not aircraft cannon, were used to down the Chinese spy balloon and others. The main reason seems to be that perforating a large helium balloon with bullets doesn't bring...

Presumably, all that alien advanced Intelligence includes a comprehensive list of the various hunting seasons and regulations pertinent to the locals where they employ Operation Bambi. Otherwise, that alien might look real good mounted to the...