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NEW: Speaker McCarthy Requests 'Gang of Eight' Briefing About Chinese Spy Balloon Located by Pentagon Over the Continental U.S.
Red State ^ | 02/02/2023 | Jennifer Van Laar

Posted on 02/02/2023 9:10:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/02/2023 9:10:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Put it in a Faraday Cage and deflate it slowly to a soft landing.


2 posted on 02/02/2023 9:12:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

What kind of altitude is it floating along at?


3 posted on 02/02/2023 9:17:28 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Have we no Patriot missiles we can fly up to Montana?


4 posted on 02/02/2023 9:20:25 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anything with a laser?


5 posted on 02/02/2023 9:21:44 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh boy. Hakeeeeeem and Chuck You.

Peachy keen.


6 posted on 02/02/2023 9:22:44 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about a bi-plane with some guy with a shotgun in the back seat?


7 posted on 02/02/2023 9:22:57 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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What kind of altitude is it floating along at?

40k, reportedly. Above commercial air lanes.

8 posted on 02/02/2023 9:25:40 PM PST by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind

We won’t shoot it down because it might have illegal aliens crossing our borders or it might have Joe’s most recent 10% off the top

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9 posted on 02/02/2023 9:25:49 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin.)
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Just borrow the “hook” from the Apollo Theater and grab the friggin thing and bring it down.


10 posted on 02/02/2023 9:26:27 PM PST by montag813
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It’s extremely consequential that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is no longer eligible to receive this briefing.

Oh, I can imagine. The CCP and the media are going to have to find another leaker.

Personally I'd opt for announcing that the country owning the balloon needs to announce it now or it goes down. You don't fly so much as an airliner over somebody's territory without permission.

11 posted on 02/02/2023 9:27:02 PM PST by Billthedrill
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this is where we keep are nuke silos...we could shoot the balloon down. There are missile battery’s in the area for this.


12 posted on 02/02/2023 9:29:00 PM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good thing it’s not spreading toxins, right? Right?


13 posted on 02/02/2023 9:41:10 PM PST by Venkman
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I was asked by ATC to look for a balloon while over Canada on my flight from anchorage. No details given when I asked. Flying a 747 at 35,000’.


14 posted on 02/02/2023 9:42:33 PM PST by Bigbrown
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Im sure we have fighter jets that could shoot this piece of crap down using gun cannons. Bunch of wusses.


15 posted on 02/02/2023 9:50:57 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (Read The Screwtape letters, section “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
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Ridiculous that this balloon or whatever it is hasn’t been taken down yet.


16 posted on 02/02/2023 9:59:10 PM PST by MAGA2017
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Is this balloon red?
Are there more?
Nena warned us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc
17 posted on 02/02/2023 10:09:57 PM PST by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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It's been looking at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
Malmstrom Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana, United States, adjacent to the city of Great Falls. It was named in honor of World War II POW Colonel Einar Axel Malmstrom. It is the home of the 341st Missile Wing of the Air Force Global Strike Command.
That is the headquarters of our ICBMs.
18 posted on 02/02/2023 10:23:39 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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19,000 feet +


19 posted on 02/02/2023 10:26:58 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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wait, 19,000 feet + might have been our reconnaissance aircraft's altitude.   I just saw someone indicated about 60......80 th.ft.

Monkey Werx US will have the Friday SITREP at 11:00 AM Central time.

20 posted on 02/02/2023 10:36:46 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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