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Fighter Jets Soar Over Chicago as Part of ‘Air Defense Shield’ for NATO Summit

U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region Conducts Training Friday Morning for NATO Summit in Chicago

Helicopters like this Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin were involved in Friday's training. (Photo: Wikimedia)

Whether residents were mentally ready or not, a training exercise involving Air Force KC-135 tankers, Air Force F-16s, and a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopters took place this morning in Chicago as part of the military’s preparation for the NATO Summit that begins on Sunday.

(Related: Chicago beginning to look more like Fort Knox leading up to NATO Summit)

According to the local CBS affiliate, the U.S. North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command Region training began at 9 a.m. Central time and was expected to take about two hours. Here’s more on how the aircraft will be used to help protect the airspace around the city that will be hosting world leaders and dignitaries from May 20-22:

“Providing the air defense for special security events like this year’s NATO Summit is a part of our day-to-day mission,” said Lt. Gen. Sid Clarke, Continental U.S. NORAD Region commander said in a statement. “Our interagency partnerships are a key component to the air defense shield for events like this.”

During the NATO Summit, Air Force fighter jets will be on alert to enforce the Federal Aviation Administration’s Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) zone during the summit. Military jets have been authorized to shoot down any aircraft that violates secure airspace over Chicago.

(Related: Planes be warned: Aircraft violating no-fly zone for Chicago NATO Summit could be shot down)

Here‘s CBS’ report on the training from earlier this morning:

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CBS also reports that the Pentagon has made a comment on the recent unconfirmed drone sighting in a suburb 40 miles from the city. It notes Defense Department spokesman George Little didn’t comment on the event specifically but said the military will be providing support to secure the summit.

(Related: Possible drone spotted in Chicago suburbs in preparation for NATO Summit — see the video)

Here’s the drone video, which some have questioned the validity of, if you missed it:

Comments (60)

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  • IntheKnowOG
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 6:02pm

    It’s faked. The drone is not in the field of vision before he zooms. He would have moved the camera to the drone, not it’s perceived path. Targeting a moving object requires one to see said object in the reticle first, then zooming to it using it as a point of reference. Notice it is not present until after he zooms. Faked by some douche using a movie making app. Amateur.

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    • 4blackhorses
      Posted on May 19, 2012 at 7:16pm

      I think you are correct in it being faked. Drones make little noise, why then in the ruckus of filming and loud reverberations of the the fans and the children during a soccer game should this supposed “capturer on film” suddenly reverse angles to spot the drone? Something tells me he has the elephatine ears of hearing similiar to The One. “Closed to any other train of thought but his own.”

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    • Joanne
      Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:45pm

      I don‘t know that it’s faked. As far as your ‘field of vision’ explanation trust me, some of us COULD zoom into the sky before an object entered the field of vision, especially someone with poor eyesight like myself. I‘ve actually ’picked’ a spot in the PATH of a plane, hawk, etc to ‘catch it’ as it comes into line with the lens. My intention then is to capture it as it flies INTO the camera’s field of vision and then keep it in focus and pan the camera as it moves forward. As I‘ve gotten older my eyes don’t respond like they used to so it can be nearly impossible to find the object (moving in the sky) as I zoom into it (by time I do the object has usually moved beyond where I zoomed to). So you see it’s NOT necessarily a fake because of how this video appears. It’s a hard fact of life that your responses change greatly as you get older and what seems so easily explained away might not really BE that simple (trust me, I know this from experience).

      The noise on the video seemed strange to me at first since I thought drones were supposed to be pretty much silent making them hard to detect. But playing it again I think the noise we hear on the video is actually the wind over the mike. And it IS possible that this person was standing somewhere alone with no others close enough to him for the mike to pick their voices up. So like I said, maybe it‘s a fake but maybe it’s not. I just don‘t think it’s that cut and dried.

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  • spirited
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 5:48pm

    Dirty ba$tard$ !

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    • oldkodger
      Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:00pm

      what bothers me is calling the leaders- dignitaries and having them here hosted by an idiot.

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  • sizzler2220
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 5:47pm

    If you have to go thru all this for a Nato meeting, then have the meetings in the middle of the Sahara. This is ridiculous.

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  • SNOOPALOOP6868
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 4:26pm

    I‘m sick and tired of the government being sneeky and always trying to tell us that it’s all for our own good and we need not no the hows or whys. Government for and by the people my ass! Might as well be living in china or russia the way these fools are doing us.

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    • Apatriot2
      Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:12pm

      Well Snoop this is exactly what they are trying to do to us, If BO wins the elections we WILL be living exactly like CHINA and RUSSIA with a whole lot of Muslim thrown in.

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  • Nanaswords
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:58pm

    Blaze Staff… I had troouble this morning on my ROKU… getting your live radio program about ten minutes into the program. I had to shut-down and come in later on a tape…and still had some stopping/starting on that …FYI ! On this Chicago air control article.. It is too bad that the WH doesn’t make all that available on our Borders !!! Guess they will wait until the “illegals come in as an army with suitcase-style weapons/ammunition !!! I’m not talking only mexican workers either…they don’t speak aramaic or chinese !

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  • EP46
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:56pm

    Chicago….The host committee and the city have estimated the NATO, G8 summits

    could cost $40 million to $65 million

    and will be paid by donations from the private sector

    and FEDERAL FUNDS,

    not by local taxpayers. Officials would not release fundraising goals.

    WHERE do FEDERAL funds come from IF NOT from taxpayers?

    Saying ‘not local taxpayers’ means that all American taxpayers are paying this cost for Chicago. Rahm and obama are pouring tax $$ into Chicago when these meetings could have been held at Camp David. Saying ‘it will cost’ means the money is going to UNION workers in Chicago. Extra workers, overtime, and security are all union jobs.

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    • bobbiejean
      Posted on May 19, 2012 at 5:23pm

      That was the question I was going to pose, EP46—where is the money coming from for the fly-over
      protection? I would expect the military planes would be paid out of taxpayer money. Is this the only
      place in the country where these meetings could be held? Good grief!

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  • FromSeaToSea
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:47pm

    Have You Ever Heard Of “The Declaration of INTERdependence” ?

    My grandparents, my parents, and probably yours have been asleep at the wheel. This is treasonous shxt signed by 32 senate and 92 House of Reps. going to the 70′s. Without you studing the issues its to late……….Read this very carefully.

    The DECLARATION of INTERdependence -

    “Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a NEW WORLD ORDER.“ ”Narrow notions of national sovereignty must not be permitted to curtail that obligation.” “To establish a NEW WORLD ORDER it is essential that mankind free itself from limitations of national prejudice. No one nation can any longer effectively maintain its processes of production and monetary systems without recognizing the necessity of collaborative regulation BY INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES.
    We call upon all nations to strengthen the United Nations and other institutions of WORLD ORDER!” ― The Declaration of INTERdependence — signed by 32 Senators & 92 Representatives in Washington D.C. Jan. 30, 1976

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 4:52pm

      @FromSeaToSea

      Ten days after Jimmy Carter took office…. need I say more?

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  • justangry
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 2:54pm

    For what it’s worth… Alex Jones is reporting the there were two warrantless raids that took place recently in Chicago. Nine “activists” are being held in the organized crime detention center with no charges filed. The National Lawyers Guild has spoken to the detainees, but is getting nowhere with officials at any level regarding details of their detainment. As always, I’ll wait to see if another source picks it up before I rush to any conclusions, but it is pretty spooky. NDAA being used even though Obama said he wouldn’t detain American citizens?

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    • lisa2994
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 3:20pm

      And not to mention a judge just struck down that part of the law as well.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 2:40pm

    cool if they go on our private property we should be able to shot them down to.

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  • inferno
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 2:00pm

    Great ! I always wanted to see a dog fight over Chicago. If that doesn’t happen, perhaps they could take out a traiffic violater with a hellfire missle ! That way they can kill two birds with one stone.
    That is traffic control and target practice.

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  • Arshloch
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:40pm

    All these creten meetings should be held on an oasis in the Sahara. If this were done normal life in cities could go on without streets being full of filthy ‘protesters’ and all traffic and business tied up for ‘security’. The other benefit would come from no night life, to waste tax payer funds on, so the ‘Oh so wonderful’ hacks would GO HOME.

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  • jackact
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:22pm

    Air defense shields over Chicago but no nuclear missile defense systems (as stated by the Obama administration) over eastern Europe?
    Did I miss something here?

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  • lynda1276
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:06pm

    “Closed for comment” Blaze, Glenn, why are we being silenced?

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    • jackact
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 1:26pm

      I agree.
      It is getting harder to post commentary on the Blaze.
      Even though we are not resorting to foul language and continue to stay on point.
      Has the FCC issued a mandate?

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  • FromSeaToSea
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 12:56pm

    The enemy is not in foreign lands. The enemy is not sleeper cells. The enemy is not overhead Chicago. The enemy occupys the most important seats in Washington. The enemy has killed more people in the world with their pen strokes signing orders. The enemy wants the US destroyed so a one world gov. under the UN can take us over. The enemy is vile. The show of force in Chicago is just citizen mind control.

    We have up to 1,000 people in Washington that should be tried for Constitutional treason.

    This Country would return to freedom and morallity tomorrow morning if these people were
    prosecuted under the Constitution. Their Constitutional oath is the basis of their treason.
    An oath taken before a judge and with hand on the Bible and sworn to.
    Now they need to be held accountable for their treason to America.

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    • Joanne
      Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:10pm

      I agree with what you‘re saying except for saying we’d ‘return to morality’. That horse left the barn LONG before Obama became POTUS. American was VASTLY morally corrupted before that happened and perhaps God allowed Obama to BE installed as Pres. as a punishment for America’s moral decay (or at least as a wake up call). I DO feel it‘s far worse since he got in but let’s be realistic about the immorality in the U.S. Obama DIDN‘T ’bring it’. But he HAS ‘aided and abetted it’ and even PROMOTED it!

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  • FromSeaToSea
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 12:26pm

    NATO has murdered more people in foreign lands in the name of “peace” the last 10 years than any nation. The US lead killing. NATO was created to counter Russians. Now we have an alliance policing the world killing and destroying anyone they disagree with. NATO plans to take over the US military and then America will become a state nation under the UN. In 2001-2006 NATO killed 500,000 children in Iraq alone. 500,000. That’s criminal by all standards. “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.” President Benjamin Harrison

    Americans heritage is under attack from within. “Americans will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

    There are up to 1,000 people in Washington that should be brought before a Constitutional court and tried for Constitutional treason. Example “Nationalism is no longer a viable concept.” Zbigniew Brzezinski

    What to do………..Speak out for your Constitution. All freedom in the US solely comes from the Constitution and Bill of RIghts. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS – PEACEKEEPERS. ” A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT.” George Washington “

    “We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all

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  • JustPeachy
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 12:14pm

    Also had major troubles getting GBTV on ROKU this morning. Least there’s radio (for now). Heh.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:58am

    This much firepower in the area indicates only one thing to me; we are being set up by Obama and his radical allies for a massive, devastating hit. The only thing now is if it will be conventional, unconventional or a mass effect device?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 12:14pm

      If you swim where the Parranah school… expect to eaten!

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  • blanco5
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:53am

    One man‘s drone is another man’s target.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:53am

    bombs away

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  • momrules
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:51am

    This is all being done for NATO but we had all better get used to the idea. This will be going on in every city and town in every state soon.

    Chicago is now an occupied city, think WWII, where the citizens had better have their papers and their heads down . The new America.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:48am

    In China… Mao decided that the only way to keep the Revolutionary Spirit alive… was to create a Permanent Revolution. So, he had “students” form into a Red Guard… and they went around Destroying, Beating, & Killing. This is what you see here!

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  • IDONTTHINKSO
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:47am

    I think it is sad where our country is headed; when we the people are not allowed the truth by our own government it is very evident we are no longer a freedom bound nation!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:46am

    Excuse me, but who would WANT chicago for anything other than …… well, never mind.

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:41am

    Can’t think of a more evil location to perpetuate evil intentions than Chicago.

    Why am I not surprised?

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  • Locked
    Posted on May 18, 2012 at 11:41am

    Not a question on this article, but why are comments closed on the “top 20 jobs without a degree” article? Mistake?

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