This is a little goofy, and likely another expression of the Beijing dragon doing the propaganda dance. According to multiple media sources a high altitude “spy balloon” is drifting over U.S. airspace and the Pentagon has discussed options for shooting it down yet they didn’t.
It’s goofy because the balloon is floating well above commercial airline routes and, well, what could China capture via balloon that they are not already capturing via satellite surveillance. It’s just odd. {Direct Rumble Link}
I can understand not shooting it down – after all, that approach would likely then involve bits of the thing falling to the ground, which then would pose both a hazard and a need to collect all the debris. It seems more like a Beijing propaganda effort than an actual risk to any U.S. military interests.
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Washington DC – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday night called for a briefing of the “Gang of Eight” — the group of lawmakers charged with reviewing the nation’s most sensitive intelligence information — following reports of a Chinese spy balloon flying over Montana.
“China’s brazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be addressed, and President Biden cannot be silent,” McCarthy tweeted. “I am requesting a Gang of Eight briefing.” (read more)
Have no fear, the Pentagon is investigating with their best men, whoops – I mean people, or people-kind, or non-binary persons who are within what we previously called the U.S. military, or defense dept. Whatever all that is now….
😄 Chinese Spy Balloon
This is Too Good not to save!! LOL!!!
yucky
Has Gen. Milley called his Chinese superior to apologize yet?
Do you mean General Mi Li or General My Lie from the Panty Brigade?
Gen. Millie; Bully PU$$Y !
Mi Li, were you there? So STFU about that. You could not understand the circumstances.
Hi there, Ken! Haven’t seen you in a long time.
Take a chill pill there scooter.
Mi Li, c’mon, My Lie would be more Korean.
He actually gave them their approved flight path.
No, he has called them to say that if America starts launching balloons at them, he will personally intervene …
Pfizer objected to it being shot down.
Well played. Very rich.
Dissing the Meat Puppet, and sadly…all of us
It’s a message. Probably a warning. They are saying that they have or know of a technology that has to do with weather balloons that the military has covertly used before, and china can expose them at any time, bringing down their precious weather balloon investment, and all the plans the military had made for its future use.
Could also be US companies involved:
https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-U.S.-Outbound-Investment-into-Chinese-AI-Companies-1.pdf
EMP. Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb.
It’s an old Sicilian message.
It means Luca Brassi was shot out of a cannon.
A bit of an absurdity. China is interested in economic superiority, rather than armed confrontation. Look at how many army bases they have throughout the world….you can count them on one hand. I don’t even trust the ‘sources’ that say this is a ‘spy balloon’. This seems to be some further idiocy from our ‘intelligence agencies’, especially as, as Sundance points out, satellite coverage would be far more successful. Spidey sense???
Yes, haven’t heard why this is known to be Chinese.
Chinese are very much interested in intimidation and messaging sending.
That would be the Biden “Administration”.
I may be off base but what is the range of a balloon like? Was is actually released from China or from somewhere more close by, like Canada? That would put it in a different light.
Interesting. MonkeyWerx has been reporting on US balloons on the US Canadian border the last year. Youtube Monkey Werx sit reps. Also, chinese and Russian submarines on the East and West coasts. After all the US materiel supplied to the Ukraine, I wonder what is left in the US.
From O Canada msm: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/indo-pacific-us-canada-1.6639940
Another report:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/02/02/canada-says-norad-tracking-high-altitude-surveillance-balloon-detected-over-the-us.html
Makes one wonder if this another, “Look here while I do something over there…..”
Like shutting down a gene therapy plant:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/covid-vaccine-maker-medicago-shuts-down-1.6735521?cmp=rss
Destroying evidence?
Or a report on US companies investments in China AI
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-firms-investing-billions-chinas-ai-sector-report
https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-U.S.-Outbound-Investment-into-Chinese-AI-Companies-1.pdf
CISCO, Goldman Sachs
Hat tip Epoch Times, Zerohedge
Or its a distraction from the fact this document fiasco is bigger than the legacy media and the WH is letting on. The DOJ is in overdrive trying to cover it up but they just quite can’t keep a lid on things.
All while the connections between Privat Bank, Biden Inc. (Hunter, Joe, Jim, and others), Kolomoisky, the Obama era (oh, and now active again) Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (known as KARI), Zelensky, Vicktor Shokin’s investigation, Burisma, Rosemont Seneca, and the Biden Classified Docs are being exposed.
If you don’t know of the things I type, listen to Bongino shows episodes 1941 and 1942 form the past two days. After episode 1941 aired, where these connections are laid out via receipts and the audio is played of FJB threatening the former Ukrainian President (he infers a threat to his life and infrastructure) if Privat Bank is not shutdown before Trump gets in office.
“……….I wonder what is left in the US.”
White flags?
“I wonder what is left in the US.”
Stupidity.
It’s Pfizer trying to distract people who are awakening.
Perhaps it is a new bio weapon deployment device?
Fits the Chinese quality standards – cheap, easily replicated, and falls apart after a few weeks of use.
That’s what I thought! A balloon filled with a deadly bio weapon. They’re hoping we shoot it down, or pop it.
Trial EMP?
Hope that thing floats to DC!
then it could be shot down!
Read Act of War by Brad Thor. A bit of a spoiler: Ballons were stored across the US with hydrogen tanks and nuclear weapons. That’s all I say. It’s a great audiobook but this fits the storyline perfectly. Also, don’t forget, during WWII Japan tried to start forest fires out west by floating balloons with incendiary devices attached to them to draw resources from our production.
Yep, the Japs started a couple of small forest fires not far from where I now live during the war but they didn’t go anywhere.
Folks who routinely track ADS-B transponders likely have seen the U.S. civilian and military high altitude balloons. I mainly see them over the southwest region, usually between 60 and 80K feet. There’s also the occasional high altitude drone and U2 sighting as well. I imagine there’s all kinds of stuff running dark up there too.
The PTB’s would be jizzing themselves if that thing was Russian. China? NP. Remind me again what BRICS means? Bizarre world.
Imagine if this country flew a “spy balloon” over chinee airspace. I have a feeling the reaction from the chinee gov’ment would be different.
I think it’s Rocky, the squirrel, escaped from Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
Bravo! Well done!
I just wonder if China wants it shoot down, like maybe full of airborne toxins & shi*, Or it’s another gift to Xi from his team mate in DC ,they are always pushing the window to the left.
Launch one over China and see what happens.
Why do we think it is Chinese? Why are they the only suspects?
At least it’s a change from the Russians.
It has a label on the side that says, “Made in China”. I can see it with my telescope (also made in China).
It’s been working for more than a week now… I doubt it’s really made in China.
that’s funny!
Just scoutin’ out some good farmland. They’ll move on to the plains in no time.
It’s nothing new. Our old program if nothing else put Roswell on the map.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2021/05/ufos-again.html?m=1
Funny how the narrative changed in 2017. From July 1947 to 2017, when the ATIP program was revealed, The US government dismissed and debunked any and all UFO sightings it investigated. Swamp gas, weather balloons, temperature inversions, and Venus were used to explain away people’s lying eyes. Now, the US government calls these aerial sightings Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)
What changed? The US govt always would explain away all unusual “lights in the sky” as something natural and innocuous. Now they encourage all military personnel to report strange and unusual aerial phenomena. Armed forces members are no longer marginalized or ostracized for reporting UFOs
Project Mogul revelation does not explain away all the eyewitness testimony from July 1947
The whole thing is contrived beyond imagination by all parties.
As other people who have listened to transponder broadcasts have already mentioned, civilian and military balloons are way up there – in the jet streams, passively taking measurements related to weather.
A lot of weather that happens on the ground is directly tied to what’s going on 80,000 feet up in the air. A balloon can get there easily and stay there for days and weeks, just hangin’ around …
Yes. Another data point. Case in point is weather balloons lofted regularly in Gulf of Alaska.
The whole thing is chuckle worthy.
Is there some way to obscure their vision? on the ground or in the air?
Yes–but our politicians won’t give back the money.
Actually, it’s not Chyna. It says Slava Ukraini on the side and there’s some shortie guy dancing in high heels.
Preparing for the release of a nuke 200 miles above us so they can completely shut our grid down with the help of Osama and Biden and the rest of our government while our protectors (military) stands down.
Only in America
80,000 feet is 15 miles above the surface. The upper limit for hydrogen and helium balloons is around 20 miles. Can’t loft a nuke (or anything) to 200 miles in a balloon – no atmosphere.
no one is asking, WHERE WAS IT LAUNCHED FROM?
Nice insight. And yes, people are wondering about that.
The whole narrative is short on detail.
A: The Pentagon thinks it was launched from a secret Chinese airbase somewhere on the coast of Delaware.
Makes perfect sense. Why use modern sophisticated technology when you can use spyware developed in the 1700’s? China is probably working on developing stealth balloon’s as well. 😂
Come on. It’s just Google Maps doing some updates. No worries.
Don’t worry–after all we’ve done for them, our Nazi Allies will shoot it down for us.
Why didn’t the military deal with it before it was over populated areas?
Is there a town called “Roswell” in Montana? I sensing a cover-up.
Push it over Canada and then shoot it down.
Just for fun. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/02/pentagon-testing-mass-surveillance-balloons-over-midwest-report-says/1906094001/
This was my first thought as well. Loved that show as a kid.
Suppose for a minute that the payload is not spy equipment but a small, nuclear bomb. Exploding at those altitudes would destroy the electric grid for 50-100 mile radius. So, wolf-no; wolf-no; wolf-no; wolf-boom!
Not knowing what could be in the balloon, I wouldn’t want it shot down…could be filled with bio weapons?
But Biden should publicly condemn it. He wont.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9843021/Lloyd-Austin-takes-no-chances-forced-wear-VISOR-Philippines.html
Ridiculing this Chinese balloon could be a mistake. I believe in the 80s we got our hands on an advanced Soviet MIG along with its vacuum tube electronics. Experts scoffed until someone suggested that vacuum tubes might survive an EMP attack.
At suborbital altitude, this balloon’s sensors may have much better resolution than satellite based devices.
China preparing for Taiwan takeover….testing domestic political and military resolve.
Chyna prolly ticked Pelosi visited Taiwan too.
The picture is missing the commercial banner that it’s trailing … Eat at Panda Express … 3 Entre Plate Special with Fortune Cookie.
DHS: The CCP balloon has been declared a MIGRANT BALLOON, and is being granted REFUGEE STATUS.
Everyone is assuming they are spying. Maybe they are. Maybe they are dropping microscopic gifts for us.
There’s a reason a single sheepdog can move an entire herd!
A true symbol of our pathetic weakness and subservience to the CCP. I think Milley is more or less a member of the CCP considering he was willing to undermine Trump on behalf of them.
Personally, I think it far more likely that this is simply a weather balloon. From time to time these are used to passively collect data about what is happening in the jet streams. For this object to have come from China, it would have had to travel halfway around the world, entirely without guidance, and(!) somehow actually wind up in American airspace. Highly unlikely.
Routine high-altitude passive weather monitoring device. Highly likely.
Thank god that it didn’t fly over Laguna Beach Ca, they just banned balloons. Liberal outrage would ensue.
Do they shoot em down when they see em? 😂
Oooohh, don’t shoot it down! The debris might fall and crush an endangered transgendered squirrel!
Stealth EMP? Another load of virus? Refugees? Next load of cash for Hunter? Beijing returning Joe’s secret documents? Trump 2024 campaign posters?
And we will have a new verse to add to Rocky Top!!!
They wont’ shoot it down. There’s too high of a probability that when blown up it will release those Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) from U.S. banks regarding the money being transferred from Privat Bank to Biden Inc. the U.S. Treasuring is hiding….
Two days ago Bongino outlines the connections btwn Biden Inc, Ukraine, Biden-Penn, Kolomoisky (head of Privat Bank and yes, former boss/confidant of Ukrainian President Zelensky), including playing the audio of VP Joe Biden threatening the previous President of Ukraine that if Privat Bank is not shutdown before Trump gets in office, he, the Pres of Ukraine may suffer some serious infrastructure or physical harm issues. And within two hours of the podcast going live Zelensky has Kolomoisky’s house raided and he arrested. He hasn’t been seen since.
FJB’s worried about those SARs reports spurting forth from a blown up spy balloon- it’s easier to just let it float around. And now the Canadians are tracking another one.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Oh by the way, for those that don’t know- the head of the Biden-Penn Center: Mike Carpenter, is the same Mike on stage with Biden when he brags about getting Shokin fired. He was also VP Biden’s liasion to the Ukraine. He’s also the same Mike trying to provide cover currently at the Biden Penn center. He is also the same Mike with direct connectons to Zelensky and Kolomoisky.
Kolomoisky made the mistake of alluding to coming clean. Now he’s been raided and arrested.
Any time. Bongino’s Episodes 1941 and 1942 succinctly connect the dots and names. And he finishes episode 1941 with VP Biden’s call where he threatens the Ukrainian President….he also replays it episode 1942 at the right moment to drive home the point and puts an exclamation point on the dots.
In his own words….. WATCH
RNC Research on Twitter: ““WE WANT TO SEE CHINA RISE” — Joe Biden https://t.co/dt0b4ptQfO” / Twitter
Probably a real ufo, instead of the cia fakes we hear about these days
That makes it an IFO, Identified Flying Object.
are there markings on the balloon in chinese?
Yes, it says “Made in China”. 😉