America is shooting down unidentified cylindrical mystery objects all over the place. What if these actually are aliens who have come in peace? They may be a little cross at their reception. 

Rikkitic:

 

America is shooting down unidentified cylindrical mystery objects all over the place. What if these actually are aliens who have come in peace? They may be a little cross at their reception. 

 

 

 

Usually, if you come in peace, you make contact to indicate so and ask permission to enter someone's areas. Scouting around in that manner is likely to attract the type of attention it has, reasonably enough. 

If they are smart enough to have travelled here in craft capable of interstellar and terrestrial flight, they are probably smart enough to know that. 

I don't think it's aliens. 

networkn:

 

ask permission to enter someone's areas.

 

Not just aliens - also applies to the dating circuit, too - I have a couple of single friends who inform me that this is the way. 

Rikkitic: America is shooting down unidentified cylindrical mystery objects all over the place. What if these actually are aliens who have come in peace? They may be a little cross at their reception.

Handsomedan:

 

Not just aliens - also applies to the dating circuit, too - I have a couple of single friends who inform me that this is the way. 

 

Consent is important!

gzt: I expect it's a balloon with a different configuration. I heard a spokesperson more or less confirm that yesterday. I don't recall the channel I was watching. I was looking for weather news at the time.

neb:

gzt: I expect it's a balloon with a different configuration. I heard a spokesperson more or less confirm that yesterday. I don't recall the channel I was watching. I was looking for weather news at the time.

Could also be one of the bazillion real weather balloons floating around up there. About a thousand-odd sites release two of these a day every day and only a fraction are recovered (there are groups who make it a hobby to go out and track them down), so you're looking at 2,000 new ones per day added to what's already floating around up there. Given the US' newfound enthusiasm for popping balloons I wouldn't be surprised if they were targeting a lot of these.

So the smaller ones are long tubular shapes ?
Someone is attacking USA's bible belt with enormous flying dildos ? 

ezbee:

So the smaller ones are long tubular shapes?

networkn:

 

Usually, if you come in peace, you make contact to indicate so and ask permission to enter someone's areas. Scouting around in that manner is likely to attract the type of attention it has, reasonably enough. 

 

Mmmm.... the tricky thing is that you need to find out who to make contact with (or indeed whether there is anyone to make contact with), and who can give this permission. So some kind of non-permitted scouting is needed first.

But I concur... these aliens are terrestrial in origin.

frankv:

 

networkn:

 

Usually, if you come in peace, you make contact to indicate so and ask permission to enter someone's areas. Scouting around in that manner is likely to attract the type of attention it has, reasonably enough. 

 

 

Mmmm.... the tricky thing is that you need to find out who to make contact with (or indeed whether there is anyone to make contact with), and who can give this permission. So some kind of non-permitted scouting is needed first.

 

But I concur... these aliens are terrestrial in origin.

 

 

 

If you've traveled this far (which is further than Humans can travel or see), you have the technology to make a broadcast or contact in some manner. 

neb:

gzt: I expect it's a balloon with a different configuration. I heard a spokesperson more or less confirm that yesterday. I don't recall the channel I was watching. I was looking for weather news at the time.

Could also be one of the bazillion real weather balloons floating around up there. About a thousand-odd sites release two of these a day every day and only a fraction are recovered (there are groups who make it a hobby to go out and track them down), so you're looking at 2,000 new ones per day added to what's already floating around up there. Given the US' newfound enthusiasm for popping balloons I wouldn't be surprised if they were targeting a lot of these.

Typical weather balloons are not unknown flying objects - they send their identifiers. Incidentally, they are not reused, but are disposable items that the finder gets to keep after the balloon has burst and the electronics, weighing (usually) in the 200g range, have landed on the earth by parachute. No AIM rockets for that.

For me this sounds like a diplomatic paraphrase of the processes and you don't have to explain what you don't know officially yet - you gain time anyway. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kim yet. Maybe the schools there built these things in craft classes? In any case, more likely than aliens. 😄