We've also been told that we have in-flight reconnaissance cameras that can see a housefly against a wall at two miles...yet apparently we can't tell if the object, with a payload bay "no larger than a small car" per Friday's White House Press Briefing, is a balloon. They confirmed that the payload couldn't hold a man but couldn't determine if the "object" could have been a balloon. Talk about credibility.
The government is trying to undo the mistakes made with the large Chinese balloon, announcing it before American civilians could discover and report it to the media. They shot it down because it could "present a threat to commercial aircraft" even as it flew over the most desolate land on Earth. This time, they even advised Alaska's governor before they shot it down.
That calls into question what they haven't announced — yet — about the Chinese spy balloon. Why, when they have satellites and hypersonic missiles, might China be using balloons? Apparently, according to spy tech expert H.I. Sutton, there remains an espionage market for massive drone balloons.
Where’s the photos?
Proof that the US didn’t put it up as a false flag operation?
Me being suspicious this Balloongate makes me wonder what the democrats or Biden are doing or hiding something big?.
Big deal making always happens in dark areas.
Who knows what the Chinese are hiding, and what they’re telling Biden to do?”
The altitude of the "object" is what made it a threat to commercial aircraft. The balloon which traversed the continental US was much higher.
That doesn't really deflect the point, but the one over Alaska was at a bad altitude.
All of the polar ice has melted from global warming so this object crashed into the water...frozen water.
Consider that Chi-Com mega balloon flew over America’s agricultural heartland and could easily have been a bio weapons delivery system aimed at our food supply. We know the Chinese have an active bioweapons program funded in part by US taxpayers at the Wuhan lab. Imagine if this balloon were spreading a virus attacking food crops like corn or wheat or new more virulent strains of swine flu, avian flu or bovine anthrax. The US could be facing starvation in less than a year.
Our senile leader and the bumbling cabal that tells Biden what to do allowed the ChI-Coms to overfly this country with a massive balloon device with impunity. Now faced with criticism the Biden regime is shooting down everything including what could be errant weather balloons while allowing an airliner sized payload to cross the country undeterred. They even bizarrely claimed they could retroactively detect spy balloons that supposedly flew over during Trump’s term, but were unreported to any officials at the time. Biden better come clean on these flyovers detailing what they were and more importantly who sent them. Biden’s mishandling of the first balloon should be ample grounds for impeachment.