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….
Under Biden this country is now a joke.
Newsflash. Its been a joke for 3 years .
They don’t need spy satellites. They have people throughout government, universities and many on the payroll and managed by blackmailed. Khrushchev said they will bury us without firing a shot.
What spies on the ground don’t get will be given to them by the government anyway. What a freaking joke.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin
Especially since it’s been rooted in the U.S. Congress for decades.
The dems have used what was once an education system with expertise. They have worked long and hard and in unison.
They have also targeted other areas to provide the maximum damage.
Unfortunately, he was right.
They didn’t have to weaken the economy. The dems have provided ALL necessary pieces to destroy this great nation.
Our enemies cannot believe their good fortune.
Remember that it was Nikita, a Ukrainian himself, that made U. a Soviet Republic.
They are probably dropping their latest experimental pathogen. Let’s call it Covid-20.
Or monitoring their climate moderation program from the upper atmosphere. Gavin Newsom probably emailed them saying, ‘hey guys, what’s with all the rain now in CA? We got people already talking about an end to the drought. You guys were supposed to be taking care of this.’
“It is to distract us from something…”
😁
Something bad is behind this. That’s for sure. And when I say “bad”, I mean bad for we the people, not the federal government.
But Russia, Russia, Russia!!!!!!!
GDPs:
Russia: $1.78 Trillion (2021)
Texas: $1.9 trillion (2021)
California: $3.356 Trillion (2021)
China: $17.73 Trillion (2021)
Those numbers mean nothing. Put up the Afghan numbers and compare. They pushed Russia and America out.
You entirely missed the point and are comparing apples and oranges. With your logic, you should have included Vietnam’s GDP during that war.
China and Russia do not gave gorilla forces. They have conventional forces and, as a result, except in a country like the US that can, since it has the world’s reserve currency, create out of thin air as much DEBT-based money as needed (for as long as other countries are willing to service that debt), THEY can’t. Thus, a large, dollar-denominated GDP is required to fund large standing armies.
And to further spell it out for you: It’s “Russia, Russia, Russia” against a country that has a GDP less than that of Texas but NOT “China, China, China” which has a GDP near ours.
And WHY is that? Because there’s too much money to be made in China, none in Russia, and the US has STUPIDLY become far too dependent on what China supplies.
And WHY is that? Because “our” freaking pols are BOUGHT!
“A capitalist will sell you the rope you hang him with.” – Communist adage heard in various forms being the fundamental message of a much longer Vladimir Lenin quote
To which should be added, “when BOUGHT pols allow it rather than doing what is best for their country in the long term.”
Now do the debt each country/state has……..
That was covered here:
“except in a country like the US that can, since it has the world’s reserve currency, create out of thin air as much DEBT-based money as needed (for as long as other countries are willing to service that debt)”
We can do that, for now. They can’t.
The brandon proverbial ufo – nothing to see here…
( while over there, and here, other mischievous operations are occurring… )
[ and what good, timely, proactive corrections have occurred? ]
p.s.
( for theatre, to look good… )
time to display a couple of purported, arrested spies to the public, again?
( how about including some real one$ … in dc … doubling as ( supposed ) public servants…?)
Probably a release of some kind of ccp fungus or mold spore that will kill off or prohibit the growth of crops. Or perhaps some kind of GMO bacteria that will make cows lay down and die. Who knows. This is what we get when globalist sellouts fake their way into positions of authority through fake election machines and brainwashed morons who are too blind to recognize the obvious collusion between corporations and government. (fascism)
Too high up.
Send one of ours over China with the squad members and see what happens.
Say Hey….what is the perfect height for a EMP device explosion?
Asking for a friend….
In the stratosphere, same place this balloon is located.
Throw a big net/grappling hook and tow it away. Over the Pacific and then bring it down for inspection?
When did the United States decide they no longer cared what passed through their air space?
When Biden opened wide the border, on land, on the sea and in the air.
“Here Here”, Donald,…. shoot it down over the Swamp to see what biological weapons it probably contains,… a real Two-Fer, eh, President Trump,… no more Chi-Com Balloon and possibly fewer Swamp Rats, eh?
Beijing confirms balloon is Chinese, says entry into US airspace was unintended
02/03/23
https://thehill.com/policy/international/3842523-beijing-confirms-balloon-is-chinese-says-entry-into-us-airspace-was-unintended/
Beijing confirmed on Friday that a high-altitude balloon traveling over the northern U.S. is Chinese and said its entry into American airspace was unintentional.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the balloon is a civilian airship used primarily for meteorological research.
“Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course,” the spokesperson said. “The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure.”
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Sure, which is why it looks like it may have flown over our new (2021), long range missile defense unit near Ft. Greely, AK. Balloons can be guided by changing altitude into different wind directions. They probably stole what they needed, as they do with everything, from the Google Loon balloon project. Of course, low altitude optical spysats can do a fantastic job, too.
Question, why did the trillions of dollars in high tech sats and other equipment not see it on it’s journey? People who are not stupid would like to know.
Because it came from Canada.
Because the normally targeted areas of OUR spysats wouldn’t be our territory nor would be vast areas of ocean. From what is hanging off the balloon in one of the photos of it, it should have been easily seen on radar.
Best tech site I know of for such things:
China’s Spy Balloon Over Montana Is Part Of A Larger, More Troubling Pattern
The Pentagon says Chinese balloons have flown over the U.S. multiple times before and other peculiar incidents point to a much wider issue.
2 Feb 2023
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-spy-balloon-over-montana-is-part-of-a-larger-more-troubling-pattern
Perhaps most interestingly, Pentagon Press Secretary Ryder and the senior U.S. defense official both said suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloons have been monitored passing over the continental United States in recent years on multiple occasions. This includes instances that took place before Biden took office in 2021. Neither of them would say exactly how frequently this has occurred or provide details about any past incidents. They did say that the balloon that is currently inside U.S. airspace has been here longer than others in the past.
BRAVO SIERRA
The Chinese ” lost ” control of a Balloon ? i CAN NOT BELIEVE that It Does Not HAVE a Self-Destruction Package; IT HAS a MASSIVE SOLAR PANEL ARRAY that IS SHOWN in the PHOTOS.
ONLY the Sensors Operators on the US Aircraft and SIGINT ARE To BE TRUSTED with WHAT This Balloon IS – EVERYTHING ELSE –> IS POLITICAL and RECKLESS
Yes.
Just look at the path the balloon has taken so far. Interesting it went off course up through Alaska, cut across Canada and dropped down into Montana.
Read about the new monitoring balloons last night at a link someone else provided up thread. Says the owner’s can totally control where these huge new balloons go, the same way a Hot Air Balloon controls where it goes — by going up or down and getting in an air stream.
This thing is absolutely not off course.
What path is the Polar Jet Stream following presently?
Is this tantamount to traversing a creek or a river 100s of miles wide?
Obviously that river 100s of miles wide went straight from China to the Aleutian Islands and dipped down once it hit Canada.
Yup.
Yep. They’re lying sacks of **** as usual.
As I pointed out, it is possible to control a balloon’s flight by varying its altitude to hit different wind directions. And, as I also said, the scumbags probably stole Loon project technology which was probably protected, proprietary information because Loon was to be a commercial enterprise.
Loon LLC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC
And, of course, the MSM, being a bought and paid for service of the CCP, buys right into their BS.
Wouldn’t say massive…but agree with much of what you say.
I get your technical point. Trust, of course, is a separate issue.
An unguided balloon would not follow that trajectory.
Our Government has gone complete rogue.
If this is a trial baloon, pun intended, it should be shot down just as if it were real. We have now shown the Chinese that there are no consequences to their agressive actions …
President Trump would have never tolerated a Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. airspace.
The government is calling a balloon when in it’s really a quite large blimp “3 school buses wide”
Our silly woke generals in their dresses and high heels.
Pray to God for protection and safety as He brings judgment on the combined Western powers with their despicable horde of abominations.
Oh if only they had a heart to do
I asked on an earlier thread. How did it get here undetected? By US and Canada. Sounds sketch.
I have the same question….
And why did it take a man in Montana seeing it and making a TikTok video of it for us to know?
The usual!
Someone is not telling the whole story.
Put enough holes in it so it fall gently to earth.
Question – Why wouldn’t the CCP order US to shoot down its own rogue blimp? Answer – Because CCP already owns the US GVT. There is no conflict here.
Bingo/
WHO ORDERED THE #7 SPECIAL WITH STIR FRIED RICE?
over the Summer we saw balloons that looked like this over Sioux Falls SD – hubby said they looked like weather balloons but after seeing this and view thru binoculars, it looked exactly like this…….listen to what Bannon said about kinetic war and what would happen to the Dakotas……chilling to say the least
THOSE Balloons were for Communications Monitoring and …
https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-mass-surveillance-balloons-america
That story is from 2019.
Probably all over the place by now.
Notice how they are making the balloons to look more transparent? Hhmmm, they don’t want us peasants to see what they are doing right above our heads.
Probably right,…. it can’t be searching for hidden Biden Class Docs in the USA now, XI already has copies of All of them,…. and The Big Guy has his 10%.
Montana has lots of open land. I’d probably take my chances shooting it down. Asteroids are constantly hitting earth with no rhyme or reason as to where.
It can’t be Clown World without the balloons.
So what if it was an American ballon supported by one of our own intel agencies? Or a five eyes balloon supported by one of our intel agencies, would that change the situation? They definitely wouldn’t tell us that they were the ones collecting data from WE/US. They could’ve said it’s a weather baloon and left it at that.
It’s all part of some game the IC is playing, and again we are the pawns.
Love the Brittany!
What should be more concerning – the CCP spying on us, or our own government?
Just as important: How can we tell the difference now between the two?
And: Does a spy balloon make any difference anyway, compared to 100% surveillance fusing sensor feeds everywhere (including our own phone microphone and camera with geolocation) into powerful AI analytics on supercomputers, behind unlimited budget “national security” walls thwarting any and all attempts to see what is behind the curtain?
Asking for a friend.
Perfect height for an EMP?
In the stratosphere, right where this balloon is.
This is not a spy balloon.
Just a Chinese kids toy!
If the Coup dÉtat happened with CCP help, with or without Covid1984 (with), and we have every reason to suspect it did, then it follows that weird things like this are also actually joint ventures, the purpose of which we can only guess at this point. Are we being prepared for a permanent (and welcomed by DC Mordor) CCP presence over American skies? Given the pinpoint accuracy of every single “conspiracy theory” these last 3 years…
Why not, the DC Mordor already allows XI to have his CHi-Comm Police Stations in the USA now.
It’s a dam balloon and don’t be so scared.
I talked to Xi Jinping yesterday and no big deal, just messed up and won’t happen again.
If Trump was in office.
Biden nothing.
If one balloon can cause this much hysteria, imagine what 1.4 billion balloons will do to the US.
Well whatever it’s intent, nefarious or not, if it’s not an approved flight it is an illegal, trespass, or incursion over our soveriegn northwestern border(Alaska). After previously flying east from North Central China, just south of the Mongolian border, across the Yellow Sea, just off the tip of South Korea, and across Japan, it turned North and flew along the Eastern Coast of Japan, and Russia, all the way to the Artic Circle, then turned Easterly around Nome, AK. It headed Southeasterly across Alaska, and turned SSE just east of the Alaska/US/Canada Border. It continued to fly seemingly along the continental divide in Canadian airspace some 1500-2000 miles, to the Canada/US/Montana border. All in just FIVE DAYS? What diabolical canisters of mirth (Biological, Chemical, Listening, Tracking, Navigational Signaling) might it have been remotely dropping along its deliberate flight path? What types of National Security, Highly Sensitive, areas of Sothern Mongolia, South Korea, Japan, Eastern Russia, NW Alaska, Western and Central Canada, and the Niorth Central US, were photographed, radar/sonar mapped, for Military Intelligence purposes. Seeing as ChYNAH is such a Loyal and Trusted Allie of both the US and Canadian Heads of State what could posssibly be their intent of such an obvious adventure? Furthermore, WHEN did this Five Day Flight ACTUALLY Happen? If it was not shot down, WHERE is the Dang Thing NOW? Which way is it Heading? WHY are we just hearing about it? What is Being Done About it by the DOD, Pentagon, US Military, the State Department, or our Ever Prescient Pissant pResident Jobama O’Biden? Just Asking on the Behalf of Several Hundred Million People along the Flight Path of this Chicom remotely controlled derigible; and some very Interested Friends, that are really quite Flabergasted by the Continual Lies, Gaslighting and Propaganda PSYOPS of these Assinine Globalist DEVIANT SOCIOPATHIC Regimes and their Enemedia Lap Dogs… WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD SAY: ENOUGH OF THIS COMMIE BULLSCHIFFT!
Now that SOS, Blinkin has postponed his trip to Chi-Com China due to their nefarious Balloon, I say keep’em coming, XI,…. the less the installed Biden Admin meets, bows and sells out the USA to the Chi Coms the better.
Is there some Chinese kid inside that balloon who floated away from his parents?
The CCP is just affirming it’s ownership over the US.
I wish this were true:
Unfortunately, all signs point to something more like an emaciated diabetic eagle on a leash, with the dragon taking liberties at the rear tail feathers so to speak.
In small print pasted on the side if the balloon: Hunter Biden Surveillance Gear, Ltd.
Could it be spreading a new “directed evolution” virus across the US from Wuhan Labs/Pfizer, Inc? Or is China detecting our nuclear silos for first strike capability?
Listening to this story last night the newscasters really ticked me off.
The idea of shooting it down was discussed and they were saying that the officials were concerned that there could be harm for the people on the ground.
Then some lame brain said that it was over Montana so there were very little people and no large cities there so no big deal.
Malmstrom Air Force base is on the outside edges of Great Falls, which has quite a few people.
I grew up there so that ticked me off.
There are lots of people there, many which are friends or relatives
Reminds me of the Japanese balloons during WWII.
China CUCK Bidet !
And Jaffer’s a “purple revolution” perp !
Weather balloons have been obsolete for decades. Some colleges still use them on occasion to measure low altitude wind directions, but that’s about it.
Spy ships still sit off the US coasts, 12 miles out, to collect data, so why not a balloon overhead to get into the interior?
Earth-Sky Calculus is a high school project in CA that sends a weather-type balloon to over 100,000 feet once a week to get cosmic ray readings from the upper atmosphere. They sell cool stuff that they pack on the balloon to fund their trips; helium is expensive. During the eclipse in 2017 they sent a balloon up with cool stuff on it; I have a nice pendant that came with a photo of the Moon’s shadow from about 110,000 feet. I don’t think they think they’re obsolete. (SpaceWeather.com runs their data near the bottom of their page every day.)
Isn’t interesting, that “ the spy balloon “ has it origin written on it ….
and , for some reason we’re not shooting it down….
And we have “no knowledge “ about bio labs and who created them, andCovid , chicken problems, food processing plats burning….
but we absolutely sure that aliens do exist.🤯
Thousands of Chinese people are monitoring the U.S. News coverage of this thing and are rolling on the floor, laughing their asses off at us right now.
The communists don’t allow their factory slaves to watch tv.
Or to laugh
Whats does china need a balloon for?
Joe biden and hunter gives china all the classified secret infomation china needs.
Biden in effect is a payroll spy for china.
The Secret Japanese Plan for Biological Warfare … using balloons.
“According to the plan, the planes would either drop the plague in balloon bombs or purposely crash in order to disperse the infection.”
https://pearlharbor.org/the-secret-japanese-plan-for-biological-warfare/
Why can’t we just capture it, if they’re worried about the chemicals inside or something?
Air Force opposes Chinese company’s corn plant for North Dakota
1 Feb 2023
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/02/02/air-force-opposes-chinese-companys-corn-plant-for-north-dakota/
The Air Force has told North Dakota leaders that it believes a Chinese company’s plans to build a wet corn milling plant near its Grand Forks base poses a “significant threat to national security,” prompting city officials to say they’ll move to stop a project once touted as an economic boon.
China found a new way to send 10% to the “Big Guy”!
Overhead delivery of COVID-23
FedXi
Maybe there are no satellites and all the things we ascribe to them are done by balloons.
Would you like to spy in my beautiful balloon? 🙂
🤣
Yes, that would be a gas.
A classical gas!