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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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1 posted on 02/03/2023 3:33:41 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Why isn’t it shot down?


2 posted on 02/03/2023 3:38:53 AM PST by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: V_TWIN

Why isn’t that balloon popped?
They would pop our balloons.


3 posted on 02/03/2023 3:39:00 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

I gonna go out on a limb here and say, “spying?”


4 posted on 02/03/2023 3:39:12 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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and say they are taking steps to “protect against foreign intelligence collection.”

I think the best way to protect against foreign intelligence collection, would be if it wasn’t there in the first place.

5 posted on 02/03/2023 3:40:27 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: V_TWIN

And how did it get there undetected?


6 posted on 02/03/2023 3:41:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Jonty30

They are hard targets. No radar crossection and the cellular structure, immune to gunfire.


7 posted on 02/03/2023 3:43:28 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe it’s delivering thousands of little white cartons of Chinese food.


8 posted on 02/03/2023 3:44:00 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe Jewish Space Laser ?


9 posted on 02/03/2023 3:44:16 AM PST by xyz2
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To: RebelTXRose; Jonty30; RoosterRedux; Mark17; AppyPappy

If it said MAGA on it in big red letters it’d be a smoking hole in the ground by now. 😏


10 posted on 02/03/2023 3:47:49 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Hunter and Joe’s Balloon Shop. Leave it alone.


11 posted on 02/03/2023 3:48:01 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: RebelTXRose

I understand from the current Pentagon response that they wouldn’t mind shooting it down if it was over the ocean, but right now it might fall on someone’s head and kill or injure them.

Since they figured the balloon can’t get much more information than a satellite, so no big risk then they won’t shoot it down while it is above populated areas.


12 posted on 02/03/2023 3:48:29 AM PST by Krosan
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To: RebelTXRose

Better yet, how did it get loose in the US? I think it was prepared and set loose in the US. Nobody is telling us that

It could have something lethal in it,


13 posted on 02/03/2023 3:48:36 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Alberta's Child

“delivering thousands of little white cartons of Chinese food”

Yeah, all laced with the latest chinese poison to finish us off.


14 posted on 02/03/2023 3:48:58 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: RebelTXRose

Great question...ask our military...even FJB wanted to shoot it down but the military said no....let that sink in...the commander was told no...


15 posted on 02/03/2023 3:49:24 AM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Goodies from Wuhan courtesy of the Biden regime.


16 posted on 02/03/2023 3:49:38 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: V_TWIN

LOL Post of the day.


17 posted on 02/03/2023 3:50:11 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: AppyPappy

It didn’t get there undetected, we have been monitoring it for days.


18 posted on 02/03/2023 3:51:08 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: V_TWIN

I don’t know:

What is a suspected Chinese spy balloon doing above the US?


19 posted on 02/03/2023 3:51:25 AM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Adder

If its even true, he should have been fired on the spot and brought up on charges.


20 posted on 02/03/2023 3:53:40 AM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
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