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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Probably could have used the YAL-1’s airborne laser by now. Thing is probably 100,000 or so feet in the air, hard to shoot down.
It’s doing its 10%.
It’s not like the Chinese don’t already know our secrets anyway.
The balloon bombs apparently didn't start any wildfires, because they landed during winter, when it's pretty rainy and snowy. A Japanese airplane attack in September 1942, near Brookings, OR, did start a couple of small fires that were quickly put out.
It’s OK the Bidens got their 10%
How large is this balloon?
The plants that came from them had an inordinate amount of seeds. I re-propagated them to use for chicken feed.
Very good question. It all leads back to SloJoe who is a Chinese agent.
;-)
Some Canadian station said they are monitoring a possible second balloon.
Yeah I heard there might be two.
Probably not, but the pilot can point his plane in an upward direction and fire a few shots before descending back down.
The decision has been made NOT to target the balloon or impede it in any way.
The CCP really needs the information it is relaying as we speak. Joe is merely being compliant.
Of course, they could have simply called up General Mi Li and gotten most of it in hard copy.
Spy satellites are in space, and are thus outside of our sovereign jurisdiction - according to International Law.
This spy balloon is still in the atmosphere, and is thus violating our air space. It should be shot down immediately - if only on principle!
Regarding "thousands of spies working in the U.S.," you are mixing apples and oranges; they are allowed to continue spying only if we derive a greater benefit from monitoring their activities and "feeding" them bogus info. Otherwise, if they are unknown - well, then there's not much we can do about them.
Known spies should be arrested immediately. If they are U.S. citizens, they should be charged with espionage and treason.
Do you dispute anything I've just written?
Regards,
Please tell us what you would have intercepted it with?
——and not Russian——
Having passed near Alaska, the probability is that it actually passed through eastern Russia.
Fortune cookies?
I’d rather see the target shot down over land than over the ocean. We need to see what this gizmo is carrying.
Question — Where did this balloon launch from? Was it released over the ocean, a la the Japanese fire-bomb balloons of WWII, or from some secret location within the U.S.? Neither option is palatable.
Question — Why are we seeing telephoto pictures and not close-ups courtesy of the U.S. Air Force? I’m betting the Air Force has already looked this intruder over very closely, top to bottom.
Question — How do we know this is a spy operation and not something much worse. Bio-weapons come to mind.
Just as a gesture, let’s fill a Macy’s balloon with hydrogen and release it to drift over China. Maybe a “Hello Kitty” or a ”Spiderman” balloon?
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