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Israeli Air Force Shoots Down UFO Over Nuclear Power Plant: CNN Report
December 17, 2010
By LBG1
IDF reports 'suspicious object' shot down 'hovered' over Dimona nuclear facility
CNN reports Israeli Air Force shot down ‘UFO’ over nuclear power plant in Negev Desert
Update: Did Israeli Air Force Shoot Down US Military Unmanned Balloon over Dimona Nuclear Facility?
Just in case you missed it, on Dec. 16th CNN reported the Israeli Air Force shot down an unidentified flying object above a nuclear plant in the desert. ‘The object appeared in a designated no-fly zone. The Israeli Defense force says it has not found the debris yet to determine what it is, but the military says it followed procedure when the object was spotted’.
Missing from the CNN report any mention of the name of the nuclear facility, the top secret Dimona nuclear facility in the southern Negev desert. Or the report from the BBC, the unidentified object may have been an unmanned balloon. We did some checking on unmanned balloons and found a report of an unmanned balloon ‘going down in flames’ near Plum Island, an incident which occurred 11/27. Plum Island, the federal government’s animal disease research lab under the aegis of Homeland Security.
The CNN report lasted seventeen seconds. Here’s the video posted on Youtube.
Over at the BBC, the report the Israeli military shot down an ‘unmanned balloon’ over the top-secret Dimona nuclear facility.
BBC:
Israel says one of its fighter planes has shot down what appeared to be an unmanned balloon which had flown over a top-secret nuclear facility.
A military spokeswoman said an investigation had been launched into the incident.
Israel has designated airspace above the Dimona site in the southern Negev desert a no-fly zone.
Over at YNet news, the report the ‘suspicious object’ was an ‘engine powered balloon’ shot down by an Israeli F-16 warplane.
Over at Haaretz.com, the report:
An IDF spokeswoman said an Israeli warplane “shot down a suspicious flying object, probably a balloon, in southern Israel”. Israeli media reports said the balloon was unmanned but powered by an engine.
Airspace over the reactor, where Israel is believed to have built more than 200 nuclear warheads, is a no-fly zone.
Over at the official IDF website, a more detailed report which doesn’t include any reference to a ‘balloon’:
An Israel Air Force fighter jet shot down a suspicious object flying near the southern Red Sea on Thursday (Dec. 16), after it was determined that the object posed a threat to buildings in the area including the nearby Dimona (southern Israel) plant.
Army Radio stated in a later report that only after the IAF’s southern air-control unit determined the flying object was in a closed airspace, was unmanned and had no reason to be hovering where it was the IAF shot it down.
At this time the object is being studied at the Air Force, the incident and possibility that intelligence was being gathered on the Dimona plant being investigated by the IDF. As a result of the incident, flight paths to Eilat have been restricted. It was reported that some commercial flights were held back and pilots already in the air were instructed to fly at lower altitudes than usual.
On Nov. 27th, the report from the Connecticut website TheDay.com, Unmanned balloon going down creates stir on shoreline:
Niantic – Reports of a plane going down in flames off the coast of Niantic Friday evening turned out to be a lot of hot air, a hot air balloon that is.
Waterford dispatch received a call at 5:21 p.m. from a Shore Road residence reporting what they thought was a burning aircraft drifting toward the area of Plum Island, then plummeting into Long Island Sound.
Waterford fire departments had boats at the ready and took to the water in search of the downed craft. A Coast Guard vessel also went to the area.
According to the report, two (unnamed men) called a firefighter claiming they had launched the unmanned balloon.
Morris called the men and determined their story was legitimate. He said at that point the most important thing became calling off all the emergency responders who were in the midst of preparing for a search-and-rescue operation.
The incident was resolved at about 6:30 p.m.
Did Israeli Air Force Shoot Down US Military Unmanned Balloon over Dimona Nuclear Facility?
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