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VIDEO: Pentagon Says US Collected Valuable Intel Waiting To Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon
The Free Press-Tampa ^ | 02/04/2023 | Mike Jenkins

Posted on 02/04/2023 6:55:49 PM PST by Conservativetpa

The U.S. was able to collect valuable information on China’s surveillance capabilities while observing the spy balloon as it traversed the continental U.S. for several days, a senior military official and senior defense official said Saturday.

President Joe Biden asked for possible military options for removing the threat of the suspected Chinese spy balloon Tuesday, but the Department of Defense (DOD) opted against doing so Wednesday over concerns falling debris could endanger civilians, officials said at a briefing Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampafp.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: balloon; china; spy; us
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To: Conservativetpa

What can we learn from a country that can’t build its own jet engines ?


41 posted on 02/04/2023 8:50:39 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: Conservativetpa

Collected Red Chinese intelligence ? Right.

These WOKE military spokesmen really do think that flyover country folks are stupid and gullible.


42 posted on 02/04/2023 9:13:17 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: dragnet2

If you secretly gathered intel, you would not announce it to the world. Absolute bullshit!


44 posted on 02/04/2023 9:36:15 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: Sacajaweau

Same thoughts I was having this afternoon.
Exactly.

Who knows what it may have dispensed. And how well it was engineered to not cause illness or death for a few weeks.

Its very tinfoil but. That’s one way to keep us out of joining the war in Ukraine.


45 posted on 02/04/2023 9:36:59 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: dragnet2

Or over the white house!

Travel on, balloon. Welcome to our airspace.


46 posted on 02/04/2023 9:45:29 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Conservativetpa

Will the pilot paint a hot-air balloon on his canopy...like kills in World War I & II?


47 posted on 02/04/2023 9:56:33 PM PST by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Conservativetpa

Baloney!


48 posted on 02/04/2023 10:00:08 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Conservativetpa

I expected the Navy to have a swarm of PT boats(with external booms) stationed offshore South Carolina in the expected splash zone, and a few industrial submarines to collect sunken debris as what we had in the Oil industry (to inspect underwater pipelines for leakage and weightcoating condition). Sheesh, we were more competent in 1957 Air/Sea Rescue and Recovery Service in my USAF years at Tyndall AFB.


49 posted on 02/04/2023 10:05:32 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: silent majority rising

No way this was a hot air balloon. You couldn’t even cross the continental divide in a hot air balloon. This was H2 lift.


50 posted on 02/04/2023 10:13:09 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Right. And the fighter apparently fired at the intel package rather than the balloon. Why?


51 posted on 02/05/2023 4:00:03 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: 353FMG

You are correct, of course, but it was a joke that was intended to show the dishonesty of this administration. I feel for the career military officers that have to ‘support’ this lying drivel. They have two choices: accept or resist. And if they refuse legal orders, then they will be court martialed and probably be put in Leavenworth, KS.


52 posted on 02/05/2023 5:43:43 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: Vision
They think everyone are idiots.

According to 81 million "ballots", and the natural distribution on the Bell Curve, at least half are, demonstrably.

53 posted on 02/05/2023 5:48:49 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: Bookshelf

Because sidewinders can’t see the balloon.


54 posted on 02/05/2023 6:49:09 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Levy78

What’s important is to know what/how it was transmitting info back to the Chinese Intel. And the fact that they waited until the balloon got offshore in the Atlantic than trying to sequester it somewhere onshore is pathetic. They could’ve sent some unmanned drones to hook the balloon and carefully bring it down to the ground carefully.


55 posted on 02/05/2023 6:58:44 AM PST by Degaston
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To: GingisK

Then it destroyed the valuable package!


56 posted on 02/05/2023 10:33:33 AM PST by Bookshelf
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