...beautiful, my beautiful... Chinese Spy Balloon!!!

So this morning I am watching the local news (NBC affiliate), and they
mention that a UFO was sighted over Montana and US officials had determined
it was a spy balloon, likely from China. Apparently it wafted across the US-Canadian border sometime mid-week.

They also said that the decision on what to do about it went all the way up
to President Biden, who said we couldn't shoot it down because it might "fall and hurt someone."

Now, Montana is a very large and very sparsely populated state. Some of
the states it would have had to have crossed through to get to its current position (apparently over Kansas City, MO) are also very sparsely
populated. Plenty of opportunity to shoot it down and have it likely not
fall on anything, except a corn field or a former government missle silo
site.

Now that they've waited until it is over more populated areas, they are going to let it continue its flight across the country, until it reaches the Gulf
or the Atlantic or falls down on its own rather than shoot it down.

So, if you live in its path, you might want to go outside and give the
Chinese government something to look at. :(

Our government seems as clueless, and vulnerable, as they did right
before 9/11.


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Re: Re: Up, Up, and away, in my..
By: Gamgee to MRO on Fri Feb 03 2023 09:20 pm

too bad nobody flew a drone up there to pierce it or something.

Can you tell me where I can buy a drone that can fly up to 60,000 feet altitude? Thanks.

Oh, and it's gotta have a "piercer" on it too.

Your local hobby shop should have one of those, right? ;)

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Re: Up, Up, and away, in my..
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Fri Feb 03 2023 03:59 pm

...beautiful, my beautiful... Chinese Spy Balloon!!!

So this morning I am watching the local news (NBC affiliate), and they mention that a UFO was sighted over Montana and US officials had determined it was a spy balloon, likely from China. Apparently it wafted across the US-Canadian border sometime mid-week.

They also said that the decision on what to do about it went all the way up to President Biden, who said we couldn't shoot it down because it might "fal and hurt someone."

Now, Montana is a very large and very sparsely populated state. Some of
the states it would have had to have crossed through to get to its current position (apparently over Kansas City, MO) are also very sparsely
populated. Plenty of opportunity to shoot it down and have it likely not fall on anything, except a corn field or a former government missle silo site.

Now that they've waited until it is over more populated areas, they are goin to let it continue its flight across the country, until it reaches the Gulf or the Atlantic or falls down on its own rather than shoot it down.

So, if you live in its path, you might want to go outside and give the Chinese government something to look at. :(

Our government seems as clueless, and vulnerable, as they did right
before 9/11.

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I get th impression it's being left up to draw attention of other countries. It's like saying to the world thta China must not have that good of satellite surviellance if they rely on a big balloon.Of course, they claim it is a weather balloon. No one believes that. Shame on China.

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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

too bad nobody flew a drone up there to pierce it or something.

Can you tell me where I can buy a drone that can fly up to 60,000 feet altitude? Thanks.

Oh, and it's gotta have a "piercer" on it too.

Your local hobby shop should have one of those, right? ;)

You'd think they would, but maybe they've had a rush on these lately,
with all the folks wanting to be the hero who takes this thing down.

I think it's pretty hard to find one with the Piercer accessory, though.
;-)



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I get th impression it's being left up to draw attention of other countries. It's like saying to the world thta China must not have that good of satellite surviellance if they rely on a big balloon.Of course, they claim it is a weather balloon. No one believes that. Shame on China.

If you are able to fly balloons over your target, and nothing happens, why waste money to launch a satellite? I have heard the weather balloon claim
as well as that it might have been launched by a non-government entity but, yeah, no one believes that.

There are supposedly now two of them.

The weather has been very clear in some of the areas it was sighted in.
Makes me wonder if it happens more often than we know, and it was only
exposed because civilians noticed it this time.


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Re: Up, Up, and away, in my..
By: Dumas Walker to MOONDOG on Sat Feb 04 2023 10:13 am

I get th impression it's being left up to draw attention of other countrie It's like saying to the world thta China must not have that good of satell surviellance if they rely on a big balloon.Of course, they claim it is a weather balloon. No one believes that. Shame on China.

If you are able to fly balloons over your target, and nothing happens, why waste money to launch a satellite? I have heard the weather balloon claim as well as that it might have been launched by a non-government entity but, yeah, no one believes that.

There are supposedly now two of them.

The weather has been very clear in some of the areas it was sighted in. Makes me wonder if it happens more often than we know, and it was only exposed because civilians noticed it this time.

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The satellites already exist. The idea behind drones and recon aircraft is
to view events in real time. That is what is screwy behind using a balloon.
It takes days if not weeks to float a ballon over the North Pole , and it's path is victim to the weather patterns. You would have to know of an event well before floating a ballon with intent to capture something you couldn't observe using satellite.

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Dumas Walker wrote to MOONDOG <=-

The weather has been very clear in some of the areas it was sighted in. Makes me wonder if it happens more often than we know, and it was only exposed because civilians noticed it this time.

3 times while Trump was president, apparently.



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Re: Re: Up, Up, and away, in my..
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Tue Feb 07 2023 06:29 am

The weather has been very clear in some of the areas it was sighted
in. Makes me wonder if it happens more often than we know, and it
was only exposed because civilians noticed it this time.

3 times while Trump was president, apparently.

And apparently they didn't realize it until well after the balloon had left our airspace.

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