The White House is trying to put the best spin on the Chinese spy balloon events by claiming the U.S. military jammed the electronics attached rendering the ability of the surveillance equipment incapable of transmission to relays (satellites) or mainland China.
Additionally, according to the White House strategic communications spokesperson John Kirby, the main structure of the electronics, optics and surveillance system has been recovered by the U.S. military and the equipment is now being studied and reverse engineered. WATCH (05:18 Prompted):
(Via Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it had successfully concluded recovery efforts off South Carolina to collect sensors and other debris from a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter jet on Feb. 4, and investigators are now analyzing its “guts.”
The last of the debris fro the Chinese balloon, which was downed by a Sidewinder missile, is heading to an FBI laboratory in Virginia for analysis, the U.S. military’s Northern Command said in a statement.
Reuters was first to report the conclusion of the recovery efforts, which were halted on Thursday.
“It’s a significant amount (of recovered material), including the payload structure as well as some of the electronics and the optics, and all that’s now at the FBI laboratory in Quantico,” said National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
Kirby said the United States had already learned a lot about the balloon by observing it as it flew over the United States.
“We’re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it and seeing how it worked and what it was capable of,” he told a White House news briefing.
The U.S. military said Navy and Coast Guard vessels that had been scouring the sea for nearly two weeks have departed the area.
“Air and maritime safety perimeters have been lifted,” Northern Command said in a statement.
The U.S. military has said it believes it has collected all of the Chinese balloon’s priority sensors and electronics as well as large sections of its structure, elements that could help counterintelligence officials determine how Beijing may have been collecting and transmitting surveillance information. (read more)
That’s what Zelensky said!
jk. 🤣
What -elensky said was, “Those double-crossers spent all that money on shooting down balloons and didn’t give the money to me instead!”
$900,000 missiles (inflation)
That’s just the missile… think about all the other costs of putting that jet where it could target the balloon. And on one of the shootdowns, they missed with the first missile.
Why on earth are they using AIM-9X Sidewinders for balloons? These are heat-seekers, and not many balloons have enough of a heat-source for the missile to lock-on. Surely there are other weapons systems that are better-suited than heat-seeking missiles.
Always cooler to use a quarter million dollar missile.
Now THAT is funny.
I want one!
I had one, it didn’t work out, it came to pieces in the end.
OMG how much pollution to global warming.
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FNorthofNB%2Fstatus%2F1625310152797593600&widget=Tweet
Slingshot with a pebble comes to mind.
A single 50 caliber round would have done the trick.
Could’ve parachuted by the balloons and pricked them with a pin! Would’ve been a lot cheaper. But I believe the optics here were to try to make the incompetent and brain struggling imbosol in the White House to look decisive and as a commanding leader after the China balloon fiasco. Only to find out they used heat seeking muscles to take down hobby balloons! What idiots and fools we have running this country. The rest of the world must be laughing their butts off at us. And we deserve it to try to make the world beleive we have a leader and that we are still the top of the free world. Hahaha!
LIKE BULLETS
If only Senator Proxmire were still with us!
A Golden Fleece Award for this administration!
After reading about the Venona Project and how it (secretly) paralleled Sen Joe McCarthy’s hearings about Communism in government, we REALLY need Senator Joe McCarthy NOW! Seems like he was right THEN and would probably be right NOW! IMO, the DeepState actually started BEFORE World War II ended!
I recommend reading Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans. An excellent read.
Day in and Day out.
I can absolutely 100% guarantee you they were not balloons that were shot down. 100%. #1 The Air Force will NOT shoot down something unless they know what it is. They go out of their way to verify. #2 There is zero chance NORAD did not know it was a balloon. I mean seriously, if NORAD can’t identify a simple balloon then we are all f***ed. #3 There was an AWACS plane in the air. AWACS has a system that has a database of hundreds of objects, including birds and balloons. The system can identify anything instantly based on the RADAR track.
Now, I have no clue what they shot down or if they even did shoot something down but it definitely was not a hobby balloon or any other type of balloon for that matter. Also, pretty convenient how they say they won’t be able to recover any of the three objects, This is all BS. They can just show us the camera/FLIR footage… But they won’t. They are hiding something or just pretending to take things serious because of the ineptness of the the response to the balloon which was NOT a “spy” balloon.
FILTHY LIBERALS are always LIARS.
Tucker Carlson said the other day – If HUNTER BIDEN was lost in the Alaska or Yukon “WILDERNESS” do you think the US Army or our pathetically equipped Canadian Army would find him?
A Boy Scout group with a compass could find these. I bet some are out there now, hopefully they can embarrass the FILTHY liars that lie to us every second.
You aren’t being Gaslighted, you are just too dramatic and imagining that….
IMHO, this has been a dog wagging moment to muddy the fact that Biden acquiesced to China spying on us in slow motion.
Soooo, the lying people who stole an election and lie about EVERYTHING say it’s this or that. They have lied ‘so much’ they are irrelevant. MSM, government, all of them.
Shut up, sit down, and go away.
We have a black hole in our country, it’s a sucking our brains out as we breath. It’s called our government.
Well, just one of them. But… yeah. That’s not to rule out that the one splashed in the Yukon isn’t also the amateur radio club’s baloon that had already circled the Earth 6 times and was on its 7th orbit when somebody got made. Apparently 6 orbits on the upper winds aloft is permitted, but 7 is breaking the lease.
https://hamradioprep.com/did-the-air-force-shoot-down-a-ham-radio-clubs-balloon/
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A balloon launched by an Illinois ham radio club might have been the balloon shot down over Canada recently by U.S. Air Force fighter jets.
The balloon was launched in October 2022 by the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade and was on its seventh trip around the world when it disappeared from tracking about the same time an Air Force F-22 shot down a balloon over the Yukon Territory in Canada on Feb. 11.
The amateur radio pico balloon, heard on the air around the world as K9YO-15, carried a tiny payload that included a low-power transmitter on the HF bands that allowed hams to hear signals during the flight and to track it via the WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) digital mode and on APRS on VHF and UHF for more localized reception reports. The type of balloons used for this flight rise as high as 43,000 feet in the sky with their 11-gram tethered trackers.
At any given time, there are dozens of these ham radio balloons aloft over the world, relaying signals for hams to track as they fly from continent to continent. They typically make several trips around the world before failing or malfunctioning. Few teams recover the balloons they launch when they drop from the sky in remote places or oceans.
ENDQUOTE
From the group whose balloon it is alleged to be owned by.
“any assertions or claims that our balloon was involved in that incident are not supported by facts.”
That’s what I’d be saying, ‘cuz I wouldn’t want to be paying.
Never heard of one of these groups. Is David Hogg a member?
Does anyone believe anything our government tell us at this point? In fact, I think we’ve reached the same stage the Russian people did in the 1980’s; whatever Pravda printed the people knew the opposite was the truth.
Seriously. And if this was really something military related, there’s no way they’d just hand it off to the fbi. I mean, the fbi handles domestic crime and politics, so the balloon is completely political and was never a threat.
It’s like the Russian collusion hoax where they can shrug and say “hey, it’s just politics man – you don’t have to take it THAT serious.”
I don’t like Kirby. He looks like Slappy Dummy from goosebumps and responds like him.
Slappy, henceforth, shall be his moniker as well as a descriptor of the impulse one gets upon seeing and hearing his foolish person.
So the US military shoots down a foreign aircraft in US airspace and debris is collected and turned over to the FBI for examination. I’m calling bullshit on this.
I believe if it really happened the military would keep the debris and they would examine.
Another point lots and lots of talk about balloons but I don’t think I’ve seen much of any dialogue between US and China over this whole spy balloon issue. Maybe they did and maybe I just haven’t seen it but did the US actually point blank ask China is this your ballon and did China deny it?
There should be a lot of talk about these balloons but I’m just not seeing it. Heck when that guy that played for the WNBA went to Russia and got locked up on drug importation charges that’s all you heard about in the news was the back and forth between US and Russia over this basketball player. Constant negotiations and dialogue over this basketball player it consumed the news so much so that the US made a lopsided prisoner exchange.
Thus far, no reference or time taken to address China’s brazen spying across the US. After all, “they’re the Chinese government” when Joe earlier on, totally shrugs it off. Yet frenzy, money and spin shooting down unidentified objects.
According to Joe, partners and allies, some of whom have addressed/raised their concerns
directly with China. Partners and allies are not USA. What does Joe have to say directly to China about America’s concerns?
As China Joe puts it, now he’s pressured:
“We briefed our diplomatic “partners and our allies around the world”, and we know about China’s program and where their balloons have flown.
Some of them have also raised their concerns directly with China. Our exports [experts] have lifted components of the Chinese balloon’s payload off the ocean floor. We’re analyzing them as I speak, and what we learn will strengthen our capabilities.
” .. we’ll also continue to engage with China, as we have throughout the past two weeks”
Past 2 weeks? Doing what Joe?
This, says it all.
“As I’ve said since the beginning of my administration, we seek competition, not conflict, with China. We’re not looking for a new Cold War”
They’re still trying to break the code. The balloon had the following lettering: H PP B rt d y.
What about M O M
unidentified unmanned aerial object challenge – shoot me down Joe – claim another Gross Incompetence. America has unfinished business.
We need to remember that they intend for us to call them dumb and incompetent. If we do, they’ve succeeded.
Let’s not forget, they know exactly what they’re doing. This feigning about not knowing it was in our airspace is hogwash.
” … and all that’s now at the FBI laboratory in Quantico,”. Dear Foxes, please guard this henhouse. Sincerely, FJB
If the Feebs are the experts in high altitude military surveillance systems we are even more screwed than I thought.
Though I suspect incompetence and insolence is the draw for employing them here.
So, the FBI is analyzing the balloon. I can write the report right now:
After thorough testing the FBI can say with certainty that the balloon was a benign weather balloon with no spying capabilities. President Biden has called President Xi to apologize for the US’s actions and has promised China $65 billion in restitution.
Only billion, what about some police stations in NYC and a get out of Jail Card too.
…it’s a flammable device capable of ignition? LOL
You mean, like Mission Impossible. Should you choose to complete this mission?
And no doubt there will be MAGA stickers all over those balloons!
““It’s a significant amount (of recovered material), including the payload structure as well as some of the electronics and the optics, and all that’s now at the FBI laboratory in Quantico,” said National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.”
This is to say nothing of the FBI agent’s eye site from 40,000 feet below, making the determination that the electronics on board needed a good washing before a careful examination after being hit by a missile. To say nothing of their ability to determine what information was being collected and retransmitted and to whom before splash down. Those memory chips have just got to love a good cleaning.
And, has anyone seen, a list of who made every little part. And what question and answers were asked and given by each manufacture of each part.
A lot of people now realize that the alphabets are anti American. Personally, I think they always were.
History has shown what happens when you crush people, enslave, and exterminate people, yet still they do it.
Why is my first reaction a visceral epithet re: questioning whatever the FBI findings are as self serving? The formerly premier law enforcement agency simply no longer has legitimacy in my mind.
No matter what was actually recovered, the government will lie, omit, or obfuscate what they found.
PERIOD!!!!!!!
Biden couldn’t count his balloons and get the same number twice.
Is there any thing we can believe coming out of this government??? I just don’t understand how people can continually lie cheat steal with apparently no remorse!!
My Lord help us our ship is sinking soooooo fast
No. And I’m concerned why you would even ask such a thing?
They really don’t like James Rosen
Reversed engineered?
That can’t be too hard. It’s probably based on US technology from the 90’s that Clinton gave the Chinese in exchange for campaign donations.
My thoughts exactly. Wen Ho Lee 1999 Chinese Nationals working at Los Alamos labs and stealing hard drives. China knows all the best US secrets.
The FBI has the stuff? What else could go wrong??
How much real information they can get from the wreckage is debatable. The main payload was severed from the Chinese balloon when the missile hit. You can see it falling rapidly in some of the video and even still coverage of the shootdown. It had to have hit the ocean HARD, and if circuits in that payload were still active when it hit, the saltwater and live power would toast them in a second or two.
Ah, well, it’s the Biden administration, you know, so all we will get is spin and happy thoughts, no matter how little can be gleaned from the debris.
I saw that too, and tended to doubt their story when seeing them pulling aboard the fabric of the balloon.
“Some of the electronics” could easily completely exclude the most significant portion we saw free-fall to the sea.
Our illustrious, but not so competent military believes the object was a chinese surveillance balloon, based on a stamp found saying made in China.
Dude, they watched it from the moment it was launched in central China! 😉
I bet the hobby balloons were so stamped though.
Question for Treepers: Would launching hobby balloons all willynilly for DC to scramble jets after constitute sand in the machinery?
Asking for my neighbor.
FBI. Where evidence goes to die.
What evidence?
Might as well spit on the fire and call in the dogs. This hunts over.
It was probably The Wizard of OZ finally being sighted after being lost in a balloon for 70+ years somewhere over the 🌈.
When he saw the jet approaching he yelled “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
Clown show to muffle the release of the Epstein guest list and the FBI whistleblowers testimony.
Since when does the military hand over combat debris to another agency?
It’s all bullshit.
Nothing makes Libs hyperventilate like the word alien.
The first object was a balloon, the other 3 were not. Anybody claiming otherwise is engaging in a pretend of their own.
Exactly
The other three were not balloons? What were they then? aLiEnS?
OH BOY !!!
The FBI is involved.
We all know how this is going to end…………………..
The Obama Presidential Library has approximately 3,440 pages and 26,271 electronic UFO files
Uh huh. Unidentified stuff flies. We know this. Sometimes it gets identified, sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t see the appeal here of speculating on what it could be do you?
Gillibrand, Rubio Lead 16 Senators In Bipartisan Push For Full Funding Of Their Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Office To Address Airborne National Security Risks
https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrand-rubio-lead-16-senators-in-bipartisan-push-for-full-funding-of-their-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-office-to-address-airborne-national-security-risks/
These are the 16 senators who have recently been briefed by whistleblowers about UFOs/UAPs
You don’t think they’re hiding aliens do you? Which species you think they are? There’s quite a few I hear over at David Ickes forum. Is that your source.
Smh…
Lies upon lies
we will never know the REAL truth, just like with JFK and the CIA.
Kirby struggles to explain
Was that really a CCP spy balloon? I thought maybe Hunter Bidens Golden parachute!
Why is the FBI investigating a military issue?
Because it wasn’t military. Fbi gets all the “trick the civilians” garbage. They must think it’s hilarious no one calls them out on anything.
How convenient. No trouble getting the Chinese balloon they said was “spying” though.
Chief Sideways Eagle over here.
Lighten up, Mildred.
Lies the government told me…
Like Obama said – not even a smidgen of corruption. These Dems excel at blatant propaganda, obfuscation and bull_it.
The weather balloon just passed over military bases, nothing to see.
Xi just taunting and mocking this imbecile, Biden. Wonder what Xiden’s polling numbers are these days, maybe 20 % favorable.
fubar regime
We jammed the sophisticated spy capabilities and didn’t jam the navigation signals that guided it over our most sensitive areas? Brilliant!
I spent part of my time in the Air Force stationed in Alaska. In February, nothing “splashes down”. I saw 65 below zero, motor oil barely moved. If they “downed” something , the pieces are laying on the ice. That’s IF they shot something down. Democrats truly believe that everyone is as ignorant as they are.
I call BS, salt water would destroy any of the electronics and “reverse engineering”.
Why isn’t anyone reporting on marines having to gun down FBI ‘fake MAGA’ agents trying to blow up a power station?
Sounds similar to FBI agents instigating 9-11 bs. Sounds like FBI and the fake Whitmer kidnapping. When is Wray going to be fired and criminally prosecuted?
Never. We just don’t care anymore evidently. People prefer to be lied to, biologically terrorized, artificially inflated, and tricked into any whackadoodle scheme they can dream up to keep us occupied.
Um, excuse me, but the FBI is NOT the agency that should be examining the sensors. That’s more properly the realm of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Exploitation of foreign military technology is in their job jar. The FBI is (supposed to be, anyway) glorified cops.
Gosh, its a good thing the Chinese didn’t use Bleach Bit! That’s enough to stymie the world’s greatest investigative agency!!!
Ahh,..the keystone cops to the rescue.
Don’t worry folks, the high heeled, lipstick military is on it.
noting: the REASON why joe malarkey announces this goes to FBI for “analysis” is to throw the entire facts into classification..ya’know…also “on going investigations”
technically, FBI would not be the lead in forensic examinations of this foreign surveillance “object”. That would belong to DOD/DARPA/CIA and “contractors” (read subject matters specialists).
again, the ONLY REASON to announce FBI as lead agency is to dunk the entire end to end facts into classification and “on going investigation”.
this is how THEY DO IT>
this is HOW THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE IT.
God Bless America
Bro if it was military related we wouldn’t ever get to foia. They gave it to the fbi because the balloon was never military related in the first place.
Is it me or does Adm. Kirby always seem like he’s holding it in and looking for the nearest bathroom when he’s behind the WH lectern ?
They claim that they recovered the “optics”. Let’s see pictures of that camera! If it was really a “spy balloon” it must have had a very good camera with a very large lens. Let’s see it! The media should be demanding they release pictures of the spy camera on the spy balloon. I suspect the Pentagon will say they can’t because “that is classified information”
If they didn’t know what equipment was in the balloon, it’s origin, intent, etc., how did they “jam” it? I always though jamming was some wide-sprectrum disruptive transmission that had to be near the object being jammed. Did the USAF dispatch an EA-6B to tail it from the Aleutians to SC, targeting the balloon with a jamming freq / bubble?
“After a brief analysis of the Chinese surveillance equipment in question, it was determined that the technology is, in fact, of U.S. origin. Therefore, no further detailed analysis is required, since we can just pull the specs and manuals.”
Yesterday, we are advised that: last week the Biden administration ordered U.S. military fighter jets to launch missiles and shoot down of what is now believed to be “balloons belonging to private companies, recreation, or research institutions.”
Today, Kirby advises that they are studying and ‘reverse engineering’ these balloons.
The balloons were a distraction (and an expensive one, considering the cost of the missiles).
So glad to learn that the FIB is now in possession of the remnants of the Chinese spy barroom. We will soon find out the absolute truth about what really happened real soon !!!/s
**barroon**
This “China ballon scam”is the pysops the neocons need to whip up the hysteria over China, China. In Newmax this week: “Rasmussen Poll: nearly half of voters expect war with China.”
They’re already cranking up the PR machine.
It will start exactly the way United States fights all wars with sanctions and PR. Taiwan will the proxy and the EU stooges to engage China following the same game plan as in Ukraine.
The Neocons are fully in charge and there’s absolutely no one to stop.
The American people are now to dumbed down and dull through decades of media propaganda.
In the meanwhile millions of illegal aliens criminals roam the country raping, killing and stealing.
https://gab.com/MarkCollett/posts/109880971111779643
Well what else we gonna do with all this new military gear? No one else wants to play anymore. Plus we need next gen nukes, these old ones have got to go and we’d hate to waste them on decommissioning.
I trust the chicoms over the fbi and the ogus
Since the FIBs are involved there is a chance that they will come back with the “balloon” was plastered with Trump stickers.