China nor Aliens caused US train crash contamination

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What was object US shot down?

Reports say the new object was "much smaller" and seemed to be the size of a small car, and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight

The US Defense Department on Friday confirmed that a "high-altitude object" was shot down over Alaska after assessing it could be a "threat to civilian aircraft."

The unidentified object was first seen on Thursday night, and US President Joe Biden ordered the shooting down early Friday.

Unlike the Chinese balloon that was shot down before, officials noted that the new object was "much smaller" and seemed to be the size of a small car.

"The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet, and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters at a Friday briefing, adding that officials have had no "outreach" with China over the development.

The US authorities presently have no idea who owns the "object", or have any information regarding its nature.

The US is "calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now," Kirby underscored.
Alaska's Elmendorf AFB shoots object down

The US military tapped on Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force base to help in the shooting down operation, which first saw fighter pilots fly alongside the object and deduce that the device was unmanned. There is no sign the device was maneuverable, officials said.

One F-22 fighter jet from Elmendorf base was eventually used in the operation, marking the second occasion in which this type of aircraft was used in an air-to-air combat mission.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a flight restriction within the airspace around Deadhorse, Alaska an hour before shooting down the object, warning that any aircraft not abiding by the order could be "intercepted, detained and interviewed" by officials.

While work on a recovery operation is underway, a timeline on when the object may be retrieved from the frozen Alaskan waters has not been given.

Biden: The operation was 'a success'

Biden's only comment on the incident was that it "was a success," when reporters asked for information on the day of the downing.

The US President's quick response to this incident shows a stark difference when compared to his delayed response for the Chinese balloon, for which he was widely criticized.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand, and staffers with the Senate Intelligence Committee were among the officials briefed on the matter.

"I was briefed on the matter and supported the decision to take action," Trudeau wrote in a Twitter post, adding, "Our military and intelligence services will always work together, including through [the North American Aerospace Defense Command], to keep people safe."

As for Anand, she said that both the Department of National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces would coordinate with US officials to "ensure the protection of North American airspace."
US looks to sanction Chinese balloon manufacturer

The Biden administration has indicated it is considering imposing sanctions on the Chinese balloon manufacturer, as a retaliation for its overflight.

The US government alleges it is certain that the balloon's maker “has a direct relationship with China’s military and is an approved vendor of the PLA [People’s Liberation Army], according to information published in an official procurement portal for the PLA," a senior US State Department official told US media on Thursday.

The US has also sanctioned several other Chinese companies with alleged links to the PLA (People's Liberation Army), consequently, Chinese manufacturers of high-altitude balloons have started denying the balloon was theirs by issuing statements.

According to reports, the Chinese balloon was made out of plastic and was similar to those US company Raven Aerostar makes for US space agency NASA.

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Nobody knows what the object was, who owned it, where it came from !?!

Highly unlikely as NASA tracks everything

Sherlock Holmes:
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It was undoubtedly an escape pod from The USS Enterprise

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Now we are told that the so-called Chinese balloon US shot down, had English writing on it !?!

I always assumed US knew the balloon was Chinese because it had "Made in China" written on it, now I am starting to wonder if it was just an English weather ballon

As for the the other 2 unknown items US shot down, I find it difficult to believe that US had no idea what they were or where they came from

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US has a policy of shooting first and let god sort them out

REMEMBER MOSUL

Where the coalition liberated many corpses and thought it was acceptable to have Collateral Damage

Collateral damage is any death, injury, or other damage inflicted that is an incidental result of an activity. Originally coined by military operations.

Since the development of precision guided munitions in the 1970s, military forces often claim to have gone to great lengths to minimize collateral damage, they certainly did not minimize those deaths during the bombing of Mosul.

Critics of use of the term "collateral damage" see it as a euphemism that dehumanizes non-combatants killed or injured during combat, used to reduce the perceived culpability of military leadership in failing to prevent non-combatant casualties.

The US coalition murdered thousands of innocent people in Mosul, any aliens wishing to come to earth in peace had best NOT land in America because they do not know the meaning of the word PEACE

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US not ruled out alien activity

According to an official defense source, the Pentagon has still not been able to assess the nature of the object due to the lack of relevant information

The Pentagon said in a Sunday statement that an airborne object had been shot down on Sunday at the command of US President Joe Biden in Huron Lake, Michigan, for security reasons related to the potential surveillance capabilities of the object.

"Today at 2:42 p.m., at the direction of President Biden, and based on the recommendations of [US Defense] Secretary [Lloyd] Austin and military leadership, an F-16 fired an AIM9x to successfully shoot down an airborne object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitude in U.S. airspace over Lake Huron in the State of Michigan. Its path and altitude raised concerns, including that it could be a hazard to civil aviation," the Pentagon's statement read.

According to an official defense source, the Pentagon has still not been able to assess the nature of the object due to the lack of relevant information.

"We have not yet been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are. We have acted out of an abundance of caution to protect our security interests," US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs Melissa Dalton said during a Sunday Pentagon briefing.

Another source said that the Pentagon is still not in the capacity to attribute a link between the recent airborne objects in North American and any specific country.

"I would be hesitant and urge you not to attribute it to any specific country. We don't know," Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, head of the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said during a Sunday Pentagon briefing.
'I haven't ruled out anything'

VanHerck added that he did not rule out suspicions that the unidentified object, including the three previous ones that were downed over the past few days, may be linked to extraterrestrial phenomena.

"I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything," VanHerck said when responding to the possible connection of the objects to aliens.

US Congressman Jack Bergman said on Sunday that the US shot down the object over lake Huron on Sunday, right near the border with Canada, marking the fourth taken down over North America in less than two weeks.

"I’ve been in contact with DOD [Department of Defense] regarding operations across the Great Lakes region today. The US military has decommissioned another ‘object’ over Lake Huron. I appreciate the decisive action by our fighter pilots. The American people deserve far more answers than we have," Representative Bergman tweeted on Sunday.

Representative Elissa Slotkin from Michigan had tweeted earlier on Sunday that the US military was tracking the object.

She later tweeted on Monday that the object had been shot down and vowed to ask Congress to clarify the nature and purpose of the object based of an examination of the wreckage.

This comes just two days after Canada confirmed that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) shot down the object over Yukon, however, the nature of the object is still not clear nor if it is related to the Chinese balloon from last week or the object shot down over Alaska on Friday.

On January 28, the first Chinese balloon to be publicly reported was detected over the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Alaska, before it was found floating over missile sites in Montana. Days later, after tracking it, the US decided to shoot it down over the South Carolina coast.

While the US has claimed that the balloons are used for spying purposes by Beijing, China said they are used for weather surveillance and they had mistakenly entered US airspace due to a force majeure.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said then that "China... never violated the territory and airspace of any sovereign country," adding that "some politicians and media in the United States used the (balloon) incident as a pretext to attack and smear China."

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Looks as though Aliens took a wrong turn going to America and instead of coming in peace they came in pieces (sorry could not resist that)

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While everyone was looking up watching US and China play ping pong with weather balloons, nobody was reporting on this horrendous train crash, US did not want American people to notice the very real danger from toxic chemicals

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Contamination After Ohio Train Derailment

Concern is growing over the handling of toxic chemicals by U.S. authorities after a freight train derailed in the village of East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month

About 50 Norfolk Southern freight train cars derailed on the night of Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a town of 4,800 residents near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, due to a mechanical problem on an axle of one of the vehicles. (not in US news media)

There were a total of 20 hazardous material cars in the train consist, 10 of which derailed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a Federal agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

Five of derailed hazmat cars were carrying vinyl chloride, a colorless gas that burns easily and is produced industrially for its commercial uses.

After hundreds of residents evacuated their homes, emergency crew conducted a controlled release of the chemicals on Feb. 6 to avert a possible explosion, but the operations were said to have discharged toxic and potentially deadly fumes into the air.

Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer, as well as primary liver cancer, brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia. The controlled burn would also release phosgene and hydrogen chloride. Phosgene is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a weapon in World War I.

A group of state, federal, and local officials issued a statement on Feb. 8, saying that "evacuated residents in and around East Palestine can now safely return home."

"Air quality samples in the area of the wreckage and in nearby residential neighborhoods have consistently showed readings at points below safety screening levels for contaminants of concern," they alleged.

"This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies. And no one is talking about it," U.S. Congressman Jamaal Bowman, a New York Democrat, tweeted on Monday.

East Palestine "is undergoing an ecological disaster" because authorities "blew up the train derailment cars carrying hazardous chemicals," U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, said.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reportedly sent a letter to Norfolk Southern, stating that more dangerous chemicals have been found on the derailed train. Among the substances were ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene.

Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, said that ethylhexyl acrylate is especially concerning. Contact with ethylhexyl acrylate, a carcinogen, can cause burning and irritation of the skin and eyes. Breathing it in can irritate the nose and throat and cause coughing and shortness of breath

.The tweet reads, "Chernobyl 2 in Ohio? A train carrying chemicals derailed and exploded. Fire and smoke engulfed the area and poisoned the air. Will there be a human catastrophe? The media was asked not to cover it!"

"I was surprised when they quickly told the people they can go back home, but then said if they feel like they want their homes tested, they can have them tested. I would've far rather they did all the testing," Caggiano said, adding that it was likely that some of these chemicals could still be present in homes and on objects until they are cleaned thoroughly.

"There's a lot of what-ifs, and we're going to be looking at this thing five, 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering," he warned. "Cancer clusters could pop up, you know, well water could go bad."

Four class action negligence lawsuits have been filed by residents and business owners who say they were impacted by the chemical train derailment in East Palestine.

All four complaints asked judges to declare the lawsuits class actions, which would allow other people impacted by the derailment to become plaintiffs. The suits estimated that there could be anywhere from 1,000 to nearly 2,000 people possibly included in the class.

The lawsuits also want the courts to order Norfolk Southern to pay damages, including any current or future medical costs for exposure to toxins.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Sunday that it continues to conduct air monitoring throughout the East Palestine community.

"Air monitoring since the fire went out has not detected any levels of concern in the community that can be attributed to the incident at this time," the agency wrote in an update while acknowledging that "residents may still smell odors from the site."

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, about 4.5 million tons of toxic chemicals are transported by rail each year, with an average of 12,000 rail cars shipping the materials through cities and towns each day.

The incident is "the tip of the iceberg and a red flag," Ron Kaminkow, secretary for the Railroad Workers United, a non-profit labor group, was quoted by The Guardian as saying. "If something is not done, then it's going to get worse, and the next derailment could be cataclysmic."

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