There's a Chinese spy balloon floating over the US

[yuna628 9,665]

7 hours ago, Dashinka said:

So three times during the Trump Administration Chinese spy balloons flew over, or in the words of CNN 'transiting the US', and no one including NORAD knew or saw it?  My understanding is this is clearly visible, and in this case it wasn't until the folks in Montana started talking about it that the media started noticing.  Anyway, the heck with Trump, what is more important is how inept is our military leadership is?  Regardless, this just sounds like a Lincoln Project disinformation campaign to alleviate the fact that Old Corrupt Joe allowed this spy balloon to complete its mission before doing anything about it.

I just I.... so many thoughts about this story. I've seen claims that the military thought it was a UFO so why bother anyone about that?????!! To a whole host of other things. I've got to believe at any time a weird craft flies into our territory and we notice it, that someone is told about it.. so I don't think we're getting the full story here. If commercial pilots noticed our currently downed balloon as it was drifting along, then there's got to be members of the public that noticed the others because there's people that notice this junk all the time. It does not look too different from a balloon spotted in Japan a few years back.

 

The odd thing they're saying now is that they cannot confirm or deny there wasn't some kind of explosive mechanism on the craft, which I guess makes sense why you'd not want to knock that down on land. I am not really concerned about potential intel collection that others might yell about, because I'm confident that we had tech to mess with that. It would not have collected much of anything. We pretty much followed it all the way until it's final pop. The whole thing to me smacks of incompetence and unreadiness on the one hand... and just it's stupid on the other. I mean can you imagine a group of hardcore generals walking into Xi and saying "hey sir, we have a great idea... I mean we have lots of spying tech and satellites to watch the Americans but man balloons that will really mess with them!" I did find the object fascinating in wondering how it actually works and how we came up with a way to pop it. It just seems like it's a stupid and useless thing for the Chinese to do when they have better options available to them.

[Dashinka 24,437]

32 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

I just I.... so many thoughts about this story. I've seen claims that the military thought it was a UFO so why bother anyone about that?????!! To a whole host of other things. I've got to believe at any time a weird craft flies into our territory and we notice it, that someone is told about it.. so I don't think we're getting the full story here. If commercial pilots noticed our currently downed balloon as it was drifting along, then there's got to be members of the public that noticed the others because there's people that notice this junk all the time. It does not look too different from a balloon spotted in Japan a few years back.

 

The odd thing they're saying now is that they cannot confirm or deny there wasn't some kind of explosive mechanism on the craft, which I guess makes sense why you'd not want to knock that down on land. I am not really concerned about potential intel collection that others might yell about, because I'm confident that we had tech to mess with that. It would not have collected much of anything. We pretty much followed it all the way until it's final pop. The whole thing to me smacks of incompetence and unreadiness on the one hand... and just it's stupid on the other. I mean can you imagine a group of hardcore generals walking into Xi and saying "hey sir, we have a great idea... I mean we have lots of spying tech and satellites to watch the Americans but man balloons that will really mess with them!" I did find the object fascinating in wondering how it actually works and how we came up with a way to pop it. It just seems like it's a stupid and useless thing for the Chinese to do when they have better options available to them.

There is one advantage with a balloon, it can loiter over an area much longer than a satellite.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

57 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

There is one advantage with a balloon, it can loiter over an area much longer than a satellite.

It can also disperse a payload in the atmosphere, if need be.   Here's hoping that wasn't the case though.

But yeah, why make up this story about "3 flew by Trump when he was president"?

Anyone who buys that nonsense doesn't have a clue about how NORAD works.

[TBoneTX 45,088]

The presence of such balloons during Trump's time has been broadly dispelled by many who would know.

[Dashinka 24,437]

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

The presence of such balloons during Trump's time has been broadly dispelled by many who would know.

Ahh, but it certainly was convenient for all the Biden apologists to come out with this information almost immediately as Old Corrupt Joe and the inept military leadership of this country let the most recent one drift across the full length of the US.  Do the folks that put this out understand how bad it makes the bureaucrats from the military and intelligence agencies look?

[Dashinka 24,437]

16 hours ago, yuna628 said:

I just I.... so many thoughts about this story. I've seen claims that the military thought it was a UFO so why bother anyone about that?????!! To a whole host of other things. I've got to believe at any time a weird craft flies into our territory and we notice it, that someone is told about it.. so I don't think we're getting the full story here. If commercial pilots noticed our currently downed balloon as it was drifting along, then there's got to be members of the public that noticed the others because there's people that notice this junk all the time. It does not look too different from a balloon spotted in Japan a few years back.

 

The odd thing they're saying now is that they cannot confirm or deny there wasn't some kind of explosive mechanism on the craft, which I guess makes sense why you'd not want to knock that down on land. I am not really concerned about potential intel collection that others might yell about, because I'm confident that we had tech to mess with that. It would not have collected much of anything. We pretty much followed it all the way until it's final pop. The whole thing to me smacks of incompetence and unreadiness on the one hand... and just it's stupid on the other. I mean can you imagine a group of hardcore generals walking into Xi and saying "hey sir, we have a great idea... I mean we have lots of spying tech and satellites to watch the Americans but man balloons that will really mess with them!" I did find the object fascinating in wondering how it actually works and how we came up with a way to pop it. It just seems like it's a stupid and useless thing for the Chinese to do when they have better options available to them.

What makes you confident?  How much of that tech comes from China?  

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[Dashinka 24,437]

4 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

Natasha and Boris can't be far behind!

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

Dontchaknow?!?

[TBoneTX 45,088]

It Isn't Just Balloons - 'Ominous' Green Space Lasers Over Hawaii Were China's Too

 

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/02/09/it-isnt-just-balloons-ominous-green-space-lasers-over-hawaii-were-chinas-too-n701204

[yuna628 9,665]

Supposedly we have just shot down a "unidentified high altitude object" in Alaska. Guess we're putting those pew pews to good use now.

[Dashinka 24,437]

10 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Supposedly we have just shot down a "unidentified high altitude object" in Alaska. Guess we're putting those pew pews to good use now.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/u-s-military-shoots-down-object-flying-territorial-waters-over-alaska