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US believes Chinese spy balloon was blown off course after launch from Hainan Island: Military Intelligence had been tracking the Chinese spy balloon since it launched from a base near southern coast of China
New York Post ^ | 02/15/2023 | Victor Nava

Posted on 02/15/2023 9:44:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, that’s the ticket. The Chinese don’t know anything about weather patterns or even how to log on to NOAA or a dozen other gov and private meteorological websites around the world.


21 posted on 02/15/2023 11:17:57 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: dfwgator
"I don’t believe a damn thing these people say."

Ditto.

22 posted on 02/15/2023 11:27:18 PM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do. Not. Believe.


23 posted on 02/15/2023 11:43:12 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

It left from north China I heard.

This story means it wasn’t a spy balloon.

If they knew this then why cancel Winken’s visit and shoot it down.

They don’t even make sense.


24 posted on 02/15/2023 11:48:13 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

If some guy in Montana had not put a photo on the Internet, we would have never known.
Nor would have the military had reason to examine their radar data for low-Doppler returns which are normally filtered out of the data before it’s presented to humans.
I bet when they adjusted their filters after the hullabaloo their screens were packed with junk.
Which is why the filters in the first place.
Thousands of high-altitude balloons are launched every week.
It is impractical and unnecessary to track and identify them.
Even the Chinese spy balloon was routine, there have been many others.
We do the same to them and the Russians and many others.
It’s normal business as long as the commercial airspace is not trespassed.
The administration and the military took the nation on a snipe hunt, to keep the news cycle and public eye off Hersh.


25 posted on 02/16/2023 12:15:42 AM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: bigbob

They change the story (hourly) to whatever they think will cover their posteriors. Especially Milley, to whom lying seems to be like breathing.


26 posted on 02/16/2023 12:20:13 AM PST by livius
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To: SeekAndFind

It took them two weeks to concoct this propaganda?


27 posted on 02/16/2023 12:37:13 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: frank ballenger

Thought that was Marty Robbins.. (?)


28 posted on 02/16/2023 1:09:09 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only blown thing here was this off-course crap explanation put out by our military idiot leaders.


29 posted on 02/16/2023 1:26:06 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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They keep coming up with new explanations for the first balloon. If your explaining you are losing!


30 posted on 02/16/2023 1:36:03 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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The story keeps changing. Now they say they knew about it and were tracking it all along. Right.


31 posted on 02/16/2023 1:39:09 AM PST by rxh4n1
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Launched from Hainan and floated thousands of miles at right angles to the jet stream to get to the Aleutians. More BS. Before they were saying it launched from central China. More BS.


32 posted on 02/16/2023 1:47:22 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: JustaTech
Thousands of high-altitude balloons are launched every week. It is impractical and unnecessary to track and identify them. Even the Chinese spy balloon was routine, there have been many others.

IF you are trying to claim that there is no threat from balloons, then you are a naive fool.

33 posted on 02/16/2023 2:14:27 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Make America Florida)
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To: dfwgator
I don’t believe a damn thing these people say.

Not a word.

34 posted on 02/16/2023 2:23:31 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: McGruff

But it was able to hover over sensitive areas for days


35 posted on 02/16/2023 2:30:25 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

This is proof that given enough time you can come up with a reasonable explanation of almost anything.

When it first was announced they seemed clueless.

Then, 10 days later, “Oh, yeah,... we were tracking it the whole time”


36 posted on 02/16/2023 2:37:03 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: dfwgator

Just more government bull s__t.


37 posted on 02/16/2023 4:28:01 AM PST by Ronald77
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To: SeekAndFind

Off course, huh. And somehow just ended up over our missile silos in Montana and other sensitive security installations? Sounds legit.


38 posted on 02/16/2023 4:35:27 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: SeekAndFind

Montana is far from Guam


39 posted on 02/16/2023 4:44:49 AM PST by combat_boots ( )
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

I see what you did there. 😊


40 posted on 02/16/2023 4:55:55 AM PST by desertsolitaire (Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes.)
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