Was it of the plane the pilot exited? It might just be a weather balloon. Did it look like this? 
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NEWS FLASH! UPDATE! (This is sarcasm folkās chill out)
Puddinā Head in his psychic wisdom has just announced a BREAK Through technology (given to him by the Aliens)ā¦ (āOpen the door Dave17ā) that the Next Generation 'Stealth" fighters will be made out of a Synthetic (carbon free) Rubber. No Dinosaurs will be harmed in itās production, so the next time an aircraft is stolenā¦I mean has a malfunction it will BOUNCE and can be recovered INTACT! according to the D.O.D! That bastion of Honesty and Security that brought you the $3000 Toilet seat and the $800 screwdriver (that has since shown up on Home Depotās shelves for the consumer price of $8.99.
This article is brought to you by āCapt. Obviousā :this is TOP SECRET News so please donāt tell anybodyā¦
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HAL, I am pulling out your memory cards.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Sluggo!
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Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give marines a $100million jet in the first place
Did it come with crayons?
I bet they forgot the crayons and that caused the problem.
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Mehā¦ seems par for the course. If āweather balloonsā can travel all over the country w/o setting off alarms, then why canāt an F35 - our most advanced fighter - just disappear like a fart in the wind?
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That was a GREAT song by Kansas wasnāt it? 
Faaaaaaaaaaart in the winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, all we are is farts in the wind! Chorus: Cāmon EVERYBODY! "ALL we are is farts in the Wind!
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Now that made me laugh
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And just like that, facts are provided, ruining our fun.
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While it doesnāt seem possible to hack an F-35 to gain flight control there does seem to be significant concern over the potential to hack them in order to gain information or disrupt other functions.
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Given the number of times companies have informed me that they allowed my personal information to be stolen I think the threat may be more than just theoretical. Especially when you have so many integrated systems constantly communicating with each other. Lots of opportunities to slip into the system either electronically or physically by a spy. Add to that the important military computer components being manufactured by one of our primary potential adversaries and the potential vulnerabilities keep increasing.
Iām actually pretty concerned about how completely dependent on technology our military is. Most of our weapon systems seem to rely on GPS these days. Those signals can be easily scrambled, spoofed or knocked out completely. I know a person in the Marines who said no one in his company knew how to navigate with a map and compass. Without a GPS signal they would all have no idea where to go.
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you are correct about maps. my nephew went through basic training recently. he said they spent a day training with gps units but only several hrs with map reading skills.
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Not being able to read a map or do basic navigation by compass is a big mistake. Iām a boater, and still carry paper charts and a bearing compass. It was only in 2020 that the USCG discontinued the requirement for paper charts onboard. I do have electronic chartplotters, and an old style GPS that gives my coordinates to correlate to my paper charts, but its still a good idea to plot your location manually. What if you take a lightning hit and fry your chart plotter?
Iām pretty old school, though.
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same thing here
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Most of my work requires using GPS and on screen maps but I never completely trust them.
Most of my younger coworkers run tracks on their phones or GPSs in order to be able to backtrack their way out of the areas they navigate into but I almost never run tracks because it significantly degrades my natural sense of direction when I rely on the GPS to find my way out. When Iām not running tracks my subconscious knows it needs to pay attention to the twists and turns in order to get back home.
That practice has saved me getting lost on a couple of occasions when my GPS glitched or died. It also helps me figure out how to get where I am going when the roads on the GPS map donāt match the roads on the ground which happens a lot in the remote areas I work in out here.
I also keep atlases in my vehicle. One for the US and a Delorme Topo map book for the State I am in.
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I donāt doubt your research and I am not calling you out. But years ago they said the Titanic was unsinkable. If thereās anything to be learned in this present world it is that as soon as a person says ācanātā, someone does. A wildfire so devastating that an entire city is wiped out? No way. Umā¦ Lahaina. Jus sayin.
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Los Alamos NM. They called that one a āControlled Burnā.
Within a day, it burned out of control and was declared a wildfire. On May 7, 2000 , three days after ignition, the western part of Los Alamos was evacuated. On May 10, when Los Alamos Canyon started to burn, the townsite was evacuated.
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