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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AF officer theorized use of balloons 6 years ago
https://www.alpf.org/_files/ugd/70cf97_eea159b95ed541af921a4a0dcd4f492e.pdf
To answer the title question: It’s distraction from the coming economic collapse and debt ceiling issue.
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