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Commercial Fishermen Find Possible Spy Balloon Off Coast of Alaska
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 2/2/2024 | CRISTINA LAILA

Posted on 03/02/2024 11:45:30 AM PST by bitt

Chinese spy balloon spotted over US airspace in 2023

Commercial fishermen found what is believed to be a spy balloon off the coast of Alaska.

The fishermen were instructed to bring the debris ashore and meet with FBI agents waiting at the port.

CNN reported:

Commercial fishermen off the coast of Alaska have found what officials are concerned could be another spy balloon and are bringing it to shore with them, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

FBI agents will meet the fishing vessel when it comes into port, which is expected to be sometime over the weekend. The bureau will then transport the unknown object to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, to be analyzed, as has been done with previous surveillance balloons.

The fishmen shared photographs of the object with law enforcement upon encountering it, the sources said. All three sources emphasized that it wasn’t clear exactly what the object was and that it may not be a balloon at all — but that the FBI determined that it was similar enough in appearance to a foreign-government owned surveillance balloon that it warranted further investigation.

The FBI said in a statement Friday night it is “aware of debris found off the coast of Alaska by a commercial fishing vessel. We will work with our partners to assist with the logistics of the debris recovery.”

Last January the Biden administration knew about the Chinese spy balloon traversing across the continental United States, from Alaska to the Carolinas, but sought to conceal this from the American public.

A newspaper photographer first spotted the balloon over Montana.

The Chinese spy balloon first entered US airspace over Alaska in late January 2023.

The balloon soared over nuclear silos and military installations across the US with Joe Biden’s full approval.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 202403; 20240302; balloon; coastofalaska; debris; fbi; flotsam; isolatedincidents; jetsam; pacific; spies; spooks; spyballoon; spying
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1 posted on 03/02/2024 11:45:30 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 03/02/2024 11:45:44 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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Has the FBI ‘disappeared’ the recovered object yet?


3 posted on 03/02/2024 11:47:08 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: bitt

Again?!


4 posted on 03/02/2024 11:47:49 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: bitt

SORRY, I POSTED THE WRONG DATE OF THE ARTICLE - IT IS TODAY, 3/2/2024


5 posted on 03/02/2024 11:49:40 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

As a typical Lib let me tell you about my new body piercing and my new “I love the CCP” tattoo……..


6 posted on 03/02/2024 11:50:47 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: bitt

The CCP doesn’t need the baloons. They just wire a few million to Hunter and shazam, the materials somehow appear in their in box.


7 posted on 03/02/2024 11:51:07 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

BINGO


8 posted on 03/02/2024 11:53:20 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: bitt
This it?
9 posted on 03/02/2024 11:53:30 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN
Or was it this one?
10 posted on 03/02/2024 11:55:40 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

“We help Joe for upcoming erection”


11 posted on 03/02/2024 11:59:37 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: null and void
Has the FBI ‘disappeared’ the recovered object yet?

Sadly, a totally legitimate question.

12 posted on 03/02/2024 12:09:21 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: bitt

I’m surprised the FBI didn’t arrest them for fishing balloons without a license. ;-)


13 posted on 03/02/2024 12:15:11 PM PST by ken in texas
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To: bitt

It will be discredited and disappeared.


14 posted on 03/02/2024 1:08:06 PM PST by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: Da Coyote

Still, valuable data points about winds and the possible disbursement of bioweapons need real-world experience that only the balloons can provide. And Joe lets it continue....


15 posted on 03/02/2024 1:40:03 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bitt

Uh its just another weather ballon!
Nothing to see here!👀


16 posted on 03/02/2024 1:43:54 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: bitt

It's just a weather balloon.

17 posted on 03/02/2024 3:31:23 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: bitt

If I was the fisherman, I would have kept the envelope and sold pieces of it on Ebay.


18 posted on 03/02/2024 3:32:03 PM PST by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: bitt

We are going to have major fires... Oh wait...

We have barroons frying over our countly and 10’s of thousands of military aged men coming unchecked across our southern border... and... and... we have no effective forest management system set up to stop wild fires once they start(are lit)

It wont take much arson to burn this country’s food supply badly.


19 posted on 03/02/2024 5:16:07 PM PST by BookaT
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It wont take much arson to burn this country’s food supply badly.

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True enough but where are them burners going to get their food?


20 posted on 03/02/2024 5:30:38 PM PST by deport
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