A Chinese surveillance balloon that looked like a solar powered satellite or space station held uo by a large round balloon that kind of reminded me of the death star flew over America this week. Not really visible fron the ground with unaided eyes it passed over several states and was finally show down once it was over the ocean by the US Military.
Some people attacked President Biden for not shooting it down earlier even tho it could have showered several square miles with debris overland, Biden was called 'weak' for not having it destroyed over populated parts of America.
It was revealed that during the former president's time in office the same thing happened at least 3 times but was never made public.
The balloon holding the platform, which was called the size of 3 busses, was about 200' in diameter.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/officials-reveal-size-of-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-that-was-shot-down/ar-AA17cEHQ (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/officials-reveal-size-of-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-that-was-shot-down/ar-AA17cEHQ)
I saw a passing headline that one had been spotted over south America, but I never saw any other mentions of it after that.
https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-spy-balloon-over-us-143810616.html
Quote from: Morpheus, the unwoke. on February 08, 2023, 02:06:34 AM
It was revealed that during the former president's time in office the same thing happened at least 3 times but was never made public.
I've heard conflicting stories about this one, but the most prevalent is that they were identified as "Aerial Phenomena"... It wasn't understood that they were spy balloons until after Biden took office....
In this case, it was identified before entering us airspace, & could've been shot down the weekend before it hit the nooz....
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-administration-china-spy-balloon-allegation?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-administration-china-spy-balloon-allegation?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/glen-vanherck-chinese-spy-balloon?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/glen-vanherck-chinese-spy-balloon?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM)
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 08, 2023, 05:15:18 PM
Quote from: Morpheus, the unwoke. on February 08, 2023, 02:06:34 AM
It was revealed that during the former president's time in office the same thing happened at least 3 times but was never made public.
I've heard conflicting stories about this one, but the most prevalent is that they were identified as "Aerial Phenomena"... It wasn't understood that they were spy balloons until after Biden took office....
In this case, it was identified before entering us airspace, & could've been shot down the weekend before it hit the nooz....
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-administration-china-spy-balloon-allegation?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-administration-china-spy-balloon-allegation?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/glen-vanherck-chinese-spy-balloon?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/glen-vanherck-chinese-spy-balloon?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM)
I finf it hard to believe they weren't known when the last occupant was in the whitehouse.
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 08, 2023, 05:15:18 PM
Quote from: Morpheus, the unwoke. on February 08, 2023, 02:06:34 AM
It was revealed that during the former president's time in office the same thing happened at least 3 times but was never made public.
I've heard conflicting stories about this one, but the most prevalent is that they were identified as "Aerial Phenomena"... It wasn't understood that they were spy balloons until after Biden took office....
In this case, it was identified before entering us airspace, & could've been shot down the weekend before it hit the nooz....
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-administration-china-spy-balloon-allegation?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-administration-china-spy-balloon-allegation?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/glen-vanherck-chinese-spy-balloon?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/glen-vanherck-chinese-spy-balloon?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-02-06&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM)
Blaze news is not exactly a neutral information source. You claim to hate one- sided media- and you quote Blaze.... :lookingup:
RC ^I looked up CNN, & they had this same article... Blaze was just one group to share it.^
Morph ^There was an early rumor that somebody didn't want trump finding out because they were worried he would shoot it down... There was also a rumor that nobody wanted anyone to know about this one because they didn't want anything to interfere with Anthony Blinken's scheduled trip to China.^
Maybe it's all fake "nooz". Gimme a break.. you claim not to believe the "nooz", unless it is against Biden.
I could care less about this ballon sh!t, yet Biden knew, and Trump did not. Pul-eeze... :lookingup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 08, 2023, 08:34:54 PM
Maybe it's all fake "nooz". Gimme a break.. you claim not to believe the "nooz", unless it is against Biden.
I could care less about this ballon sh!t, yet Biden knew, and Trump did not. Pul-eeze... :lookingup:
If you don't care about this "ballon sh!t" then why are you posting to this thread?
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Beware! The BALLOON!
(https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2018/07/37179926_497941943957234_4295809959993540608_n.jpg)
It Is Balloon!
https://youtu.be/k8qjxT1iIAM
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1621618871940653059
(https://i.insider.com/63dded87e33c4000193af3dd?width=2000&format=jpeg&auto=webp)
This is an image of the balloon and platform. Remember tge balloon is 200' across abd at 18 miles titude it was not easily visible from tge ground with unadided vision.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1621323329721487360
It is now confirmed that President Biden ordered the balloon taken down some time before it was actually show down. He left the how to the Pentagon who decided to wajt till it was over water due to the risks of injuring Americans if it were brought down over land.
"China accuses U.S. of flying spy balloons into Chinese airspace more than 10 times"
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156488174/china-us-spy-balloons-airspace (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156488174/china-us-spy-balloons-airspace)
QuoteChina is now countering U.S. claims more vociferously with accusations of its own. At a regular press briefing on Monday in Beijing, Wang Wenbin, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, claimed that it is "common for U.S. balloons to illegally enter other countries' airspace."
The Chinese spokesperson also said the U.S. was using warships and planes to gather intelligence on China 657 times since the start of last year. All this was proof, Wang claimed, that the U.S. is "without a doubt the world's largest surveillance habitual offender and surveillance empire."
The best analysis I read of this suggested that the Chinese's main purpose with the balloon would be to see how Americans would react---whether they could freak us out, as a form of low-level psych warfare. Mission accomplished.
Until proven otherwise, I'm going with Victorian time travelers.
I'm going to tie a pair of my undies to a balloon and fly it over one of f the two airbases we have here in Pretoria and see what happens.
I think I might need some bail money 😳😳
(https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_1.6%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_925%2C$x_5%2C$y_15/t_crop_custom/q_62%2Cf_auto/2cf6f2c2267a0a6c7fa211987c1081e94c344989)
From
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-coming-war-on-china-pilger-says-us-is-real-threat-in-the-pacific-not-china-20170209-gu96bp.html (https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-coming-war-on-china-pilger-says-us-is-real-threat-in-the-pacific-not-china-20170209-gu96bp.html)
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 09, 2023, 01:16:29 AM
Beware! The BALLOON!
(https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2018/07/37179926_497941943957234_4295809959993540608_n.jpg)
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