image released of 'cylindrical' UFO shot down by US fighter jet over Alaska in 2023

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I posted this last night on ATS and was supremely disappointed in the lack of responses, 2-3 good insights and links but overall meh. I was looking forward to a deeper more thoughtful discussion ATS from years gone by would have produced automatically. It's over a year later and one says it's a balloon but another says they still don't know it means for propulsion and I assume "control". The point being ATS used to cover this topic and leave no stone unturned, no tidbit of information was left out, and no theory was too bizarre. LOL I still have questions and nowhere to ask them

https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1351839/pg1

other pertinent links from the thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1...currently/
JUST IN - First image released of 'cylindrical' UFO shot down by US fighter jet over Alaska in 2023 - Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...-2023.html

Canada has released a first-ever image of the UFO shot down during the chase over Alaska and the Yukon territory that followed the now infamous Chinese spy balloon drama of February 2023.

The unusual, grainy and apparently xeroxed or printed photo depicts a seemingly circular white object with ill-defined edges — shot down by a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter on a joint mission with the Canadian Armed Forces.

One unusual feature of the newly released UFO photo is that it had already been designated as 'unclassified' within just days of the now 19-month-old incident.

A possible reason, as one public affairs official with Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) warned colleagues, was internal fears that releasing this unclassified UFO image 'may create more questions/confusion.'

The emails, obtained along with the eerie new UFO photo by CTVNews.ca reporter Daniel Otis via an open records law request, also included efforts by members of Canada's armed forces to better understand the craft that had been shot down.

One email from Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest described the UFO as a 'cylindrical object.'

'Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,' Brig. Gen. Laforest wrote. 'Best description that we have.'

Supposedly the UAP on the ice after being shot down



and my other thoughts from the ATS thread

My question, the ultimate question is IF it's just a weather balloon, or Boy Scout experiment why are TPTB remaining so GD coy about the subject?

This is an example of why nobody trusts our government and our media, as it seems every incident or story becomes a chance for them to manipulate it to thier maximum advantage.

Here's a Canadian MP thoughts contemporaneous to the event(s)