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SOURCE: “If you are interested in taking pictures then a satellite can do as well as or better than a balloon. That’s why this balloon wasn’t interested in pictures. It was collecting radio frequency electromagnetic energy. Messages. Frequencies of radar installations. Stuff like that. For that kind of intelligence collection, being closer to the source that’s emitting the energy is very important. That’s why a balloon does better. A balloon flies maybe 12 miles above the ground; a satellite flies 100 miles above the ground or more.”
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Just for fun let’s say the FJBalloonXI was carrying a high resolution Kodak and dropped it on a chicom farm in Kansas.-—After taking a couple rolls around, say Minot? Our geniuses would never find it.