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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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To: Lazamataz

If it is immune to AA then it is more than immune to this.


41 posted on 02/03/2023 4:17:16 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

F15 can get close enough.


42 posted on 02/03/2023 4:17:37 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: V_TWIN

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

Spying?


43 posted on 02/03/2023 4:18:32 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: RebelTXRose

If it is higher than 60,000 feet, I think it is international airspace.


44 posted on 02/03/2023 4:18:38 AM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: ReformedBeckite

In my last comment I said they included a little snippet in the article, actually I got that snippet on the TV talking about the same thing while I was writing last comment.


45 posted on 02/03/2023 4:19:09 AM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: V_TWIN

Getting ready to detonate an EMP?


46 posted on 02/03/2023 4:19:11 AM PST by week 71
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To: V_TWIN

Answer: Spying!


47 posted on 02/03/2023 4:20:33 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Jonty30

My bet is it’s looking for cats to help China with the food shortage.


48 posted on 02/03/2023 4:20:39 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Bulwyf

The Soviets used dedicated high altitude interceptors with high sensitive detonators on HE rounds. It was still a problem to kill one.
F-15 may try to fire a heat seeking missile on a side of the balloon exposed to sunlight but I wouldn’t bet too much on a success.
I think USAF would have solved it if it could.


49 posted on 02/03/2023 4:21:18 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: Bulwyf
F15 can get close enough.

To do what? Ask the balloon for it's preferred personal pronoun? The fact is that we didn't shoot it down and we aren't going to shoot it down. The media excuses this morning are are just pathetic. "Well, even if it's spying, it's not doing any harm..."

50 posted on 02/03/2023 4:21:18 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

I thought aircraft and balloons are lower altitude and considered fair game?

I remember reading how the USSR shot several of our U2 aircraft down..what was his name? powers? I know in WW2 Sweden even though neutral claimed a high number of enemy aircraft shot down. Both Soviet and Nazi.

Thought it was S.O.P. To defend your “air”space?


51 posted on 02/03/2023 4:21:25 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: V_TWIN

It’s not a spy balloon. Xi read Jules Verne and is trying to make it around the world in 79 days.


52 posted on 02/03/2023 4:23:00 AM PST by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: Phoenix8

Apparently it’s a high altitude balloon that’s flying above regular airplane traffic airspace.


53 posted on 02/03/2023 4:26:14 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: NorseViking

You’re wrong.

Again.

Like a Soviet agent is.


54 posted on 02/03/2023 4:26:51 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: NorseViking

Immune to gunfire? LOL. I call BS on that one. So what keeps the balloon aloft? Any balloon can be shot down. Where do you come up with that stuff?


55 posted on 02/03/2023 4:28:28 AM PST by kabar
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To: Lazamataz; kabar

See post #49.


56 posted on 02/03/2023 4:29:51 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: V_TWIN

TRIAL BALLOON to see what we will do about it! They are showing the entire world how WEAK we are!!


57 posted on 02/03/2023 4:30:36 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: V_TWIN

Had to use the balloon since Hunter and senile Joe are under scrutiny


58 posted on 02/03/2023 4:42:15 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: V_TWIN

They are just taunting us. In WW2 the Japanese floated balloons with incendiary bombs over the northwest. Started some forest fires.


59 posted on 02/03/2023 4:43:33 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: AppyPappy

That…is the question.


60 posted on 02/03/2023 4:43:35 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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