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Three stealth fighter jets just scrambled over Hawaii, and no one will say why

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I still wonder how it felt to be a Hawaiian and think I was going to die for 38 minutes. What would I do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...

It is because of Russian navy & bombers exercise 500 mi from Hawaii.

FAA was alerted because there are some unexpected planes near Hawaii civil air routes.

Military & FAA don’t say that because it doesn’t sound good before Biden-Putin meeting.

https://www.rt.com/russia/526217-pacific-fleet-start-drills/

Likely it had something to do with Chinese air force aircraft entering Taiwanese air defense locations. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-reports-la...

Hawaii is over 5,000 miles away from Taiwan...

Not saying it is related to Taiwan, but having planes up in the air before shit hits the fan is probably a wise move. Even if something happens really far away, its best to have patrols just in case.

Precisely, it sucks to get caught with your planes down when the enemy attacks.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBSWalsh/status/14048370855765852...

Russia prob?

Perhaps another UAP (UFO as they were previously called). There has been quite some publicity around them recently, which may lead to an increase in the number of reports.

There are 195 countries in the world. We are these UFOs only landing in the US ?

Maybe because whichever of the 195 countries is sending them is mostly interested in probing US defenses.

Maybe because on average the US citizens are more gullible and paranoid than those of other countries.

(To be fair there have been UFO reports from other countries, but the US has an order of magnitude more)

China sees them

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136078/chin...

I'd say it might be due to the exercises China and Russia are carrying out in the Pacific

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