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What is a suspected Chinese spy balloon doing above the US?
wishtv.com ^ | Posted: Feb 3, 2023 / 05:39 AM EST / Updated: Feb 3, 2023 / 05:39 AM EST | by: Brad Lendon, CNN

Posted on 02/03/2023 3:33:41 AM PST by V_TWIN

(CNN) — News that the Pentagon is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States raises a series of questions — not least among them, what exactly it might be doing.

US officials have said the flight path of the balloon, first spotted over Montana on Thursday, could potentially take it over a “number of sensitive sites” and say they are taking steps to “protect against foreign intelligence collection.”

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To: NorseViking

I doubt that it is immune to gun fire. It might be designed to take a few more shots than usual.


21 posted on 02/03/2023 3:53:57 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: NorseViking

I doubt that it is immune to gun fire. It might be designed to take a few more shots than usual.

Send a warthog after it and see if it survives.


22 posted on 02/03/2023 3:54:15 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: V_TWIN
What is a suspected Chinese spy balloon doing above the US?

What is our manufacturing and technology doing in China?

Have I thanked you free traitors for what you did to this country yet?

23 posted on 02/03/2023 3:55:00 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: V_TWIN

Delivery of cash to Biden?


24 posted on 02/03/2023 3:56:16 AM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: Chad N. Freud

Why is Chinese spy balloon doing above the US?

Crossing the road, of course.


25 posted on 02/03/2023 3:57:40 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: AppyPappy

Another report I read said that it was detected Wed. over the Aleutians, so they’ve been watching it for a while. It sounds like they were trying to somehow capture it to see what’s aboard.


26 posted on 02/03/2023 3:58:03 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: V_TWIN
LOL. Absolutely.

In fact, if we just started the rumor that it is emitting a MAGA signal, it will probably get blown out of the sky.

As an aside, does anyone doubt that somehow Joe and Hunter are getting a royalty by permitting this balloon to fly over our country?

Instead of MAGA, here's the message on this China Joe balloon...


27 posted on 02/03/2023 3:58:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: V_TWIN

Balloons are transitory. We have dozens of spy satellites parked over commie China most of the time.


28 posted on 02/03/2023 3:59:19 AM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: V_TWIN

Gook-food.


29 posted on 02/03/2023 4:01:20 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.q at)
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To: NorseViking
Is it immune to this?

Don't forget, we got our eye on you, Soviet.

30 posted on 02/03/2023 4:03:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: RebelTXRose
DoD officials said "the threat to population centers" is why they dont shoot it down.

OVER ID? MT!?!!!!!!

They are snooping our LCCs, WSAs and ICBM sites. Maybe counting bombers on the ground. I say scramble them.

31 posted on 02/03/2023 4:05:31 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: V_TWIN
This is really a nothing burger news piece, China probably has half a dozen satellites looking at us at all times, and a few thousand spies working in the USA at any one time. My gut feeling is the spies on the ground is where the bulk of their intelligence probably comes from.

What is more news worthy is the little snippet of news included in Story is the USA might be in war with the Chinese in the near future, basically our government, or the swamp dwellers want us to believe the Chinese are a big threat to America (whether they are or not) so Americans will become MORE dependent on our government to protect them from the real evil country for good or bad.

32 posted on 02/03/2023 4:08:15 AM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: V_TWIN

Since this has happened before, the interesting question is why this is being publicized in the mainstream media now—

Did the National Security Council decide to publicize it for some reason?

Did some hawkish Air Force General send up some fighters and close Billings air space knowing that it would become a media story?


33 posted on 02/03/2023 4:09:55 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: RebelTXRose

They’re afraid of what it could be carrying.


34 posted on 02/03/2023 4:10:44 AM PST by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD (Ret))
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To: Jonty30

A-10s cannot fly that high - they sent F-22s and a AWACS


35 posted on 02/03/2023 4:10:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ReformedBeckite

Plus there have been others in the past, and one is now working Canada


36 posted on 02/03/2023 4:12:13 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: V_TWIN

Remember when China sent all those free seeds to us 4 or 5 years ago? Were we ever told what that was all about? No telling what the balloon is filled with, and Xi is counting on us to bring it down and releasing the stuff.


37 posted on 02/03/2023 4:12:34 AM PST by ryderann
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To: NativeSon
"...Delivery of cash..."

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Hey, the 10% has gotta be delivered somehow...

38 posted on 02/03/2023 4:12:36 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: PIF

Thank you. I didn’t know that.


39 posted on 02/03/2023 4:13:44 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: RebelTXRose

We gave all our weapons to Ukraine...


40 posted on 02/03/2023 4:14:54 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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