China's "Weather Balloon"
 

Ok ladies & gentlemen, opinion time, do ya think it's actually a weather balloon, or is it spy apparatus? Do ya think our military should shoot it down or let it be? Given that there is now also one reported over south america, does that bolster / disprove either way whether it's intentional or accidental that they are here?

Looks from reporting these were not the first balloon's China has sent up. I say shoot it down and retrieve over the ocean.

My questions are, we had to of known when it was launched if not then why? If known why was it ever allowed to reach the USA?

I suspect it is indeed a spy balloon, but we (nor anybody else) has the (known) ability to shoot down a stratospheric balloon. It's far higher than a fighter jet can fly and missiles won't explode upon hitting it and cannon-fire will pass straight through it. If we have an unknown capability of shooting it down, we may not want to reveal it to our adversaries.

I'm waiting for the "Q"spiracist to say China using balloons to control our weather.....

Fox News is already talking about it possibly containing bioweapons that may be released on the USA.

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China's "Weather Balloon"
 

It has been shot down off the Carolina coast.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1621961532018917377

Splatt.

BREAKING: Military officials investigating whether Chinese spy balloon released a “chemical cloud” that turned every Republican with a Twitter account into an expert on espionage and air defense.

ROFL.

If it turns out it was just a weather balloon blown off course, Whell’s World will be ranting about wasting taxpayer dollars to shoot it down. :rolleyes:

It was said, by the WaPo, to have been shot down at 60-65 thousand feet, by a Sidewinder. Cheapest air-to-air missile we've got. But I suppose it would have been cheaper to have the fighter close and try to down it with 20mm cannon fire.

NY Times says the gondola was 'roughly the size of three busses.' That sounds pretty big. Wonder if we're sure it wasn't manned?

Republican demands Joe Biden, Kamala Harris resign after 'catastrophic Chinese spy balloon spectacle'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep...loon-spectacle

Whell’s World. What a bunch of buffoons.

""China Spy Balloons Crossed Into U.S. 3 Times During Trump Administration""


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...on/ar-AA177r9x

It seems to me that those who supported overthrowing our government a couple of years ago have no standing to opine on national defense issues.

The difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden (other that one being a career criminal and other a decent, honorable man): When faced with a Chinese spy balloon, Trump kept it hidden from the public and let it pass. Biden kept us informed and shot it down in a manner that resulted in us getting more intelligence than the Chinese did while protecting Americans on the ground.

All lost in the echo chamber of the Cult infested GOP.

:D .....

Poor little Marco the Rube learns that his big Orange Daddy let three balloons cross the border without any action.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...1ea3fa138e1f15

Chinese balloons flew over US three times during Trump administration: officials
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3...ion-officials/

tRump is denying that so of course the GOP parrots will be saying the same. Sadly the POT's (Party Of Traitors) will never stop finding fault with Biden about this. If it's found to be benign they will dispute it. If we find out it was not so harmless after all they'll say he was derelict in not having it shot down the minute it crossed into U.S. airspace. All sorts of novel excuses will be given for why tRump didn't do the same or flat out denying it ever happened..

A sober account of the "balloon pop".
https://youtu.be/9WfUXU9N7YA

SAN FRANCISCO (The Borowitz Report)—Elon Musk has been seething with envy over the media attention garnered by the Chinese spy balloon, the Twitter C.E.O. revealed.

“I don’t get it,” he said. “I’m super cool and interesting, and it’s just a freaking balloon. What does it even do? Just stupid balloon shit.”

“Probably, if the balloon was running Twitter, people would be willing to come into the office instead of working remotely,” he continued. “Oh, yeah, everybody just loves their precious balloon.”

Musk disclosed that the sensation the balloon has created is making him consider becoming a balloon himself.

“Only I wouldn’t be some boring balloon like that one,” he said. “Maybe I’d play music or have flashing lights, like at a rave. People would be, like, ‘Elon is such a freaking cool balloon.’ You’ll see.”

Easy day for a fighter jet to shoot it down even at its highest altitude, and most missiles do not hit their targets. And just a fun fact even a DDG or CG could of shot it down near the coast at its highest altitude.

This opinion is from a guy that did collection intelligence and analysis, me. I like the way they did it. We probably gleamed a lot of info about its capabilities while easily "jamming" anything it was trying to transmit back. Soon we will have the hardware to analyze.

Another ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64605447

This one cracked me up; some things can not be unseen.

Ba Ha Ha :D

And now this......




""Two UFOs Shot Down in Two Days Spark Comparisons to Tic Tac UAP""


https://www.postapocalypticmedia.com...%20differences.

Russian spy buffoon?