I wonder what the “strings hanging off it” actually means. Strings as in tethers, ropes, or cables? Strings would be invisible to pilots during fly-bys.
Word on the street is that Rudolf and his sleigh team have not returned from a training flight scheduled to fly over Alaska and Canada.
Atreides family children are horrified that this is getting so little attention.
How about focusing on the balloon with the large array that was allowed to traverse CONUS, NPR?
If everyone puts on their history ‘hats’....about a decade ago, the US military was all hyped up to get surveillance ‘blimps’. A developmental project started up.
I would wager....12 months into the project...someone left the company, and went overseas to provide the characteristics and insider info to a Chinese company.
This is simply recon balloons with some payload capability....probably shooting images, and relaying them to a 5G tower somewhere and being sent quietly back to a server in China.
The DOD is beclowning itself on behalf of a geriatric chinese puppet at this point.
Government explanation: SHUT UP!!!!
YOU TOO CAN DESIGN AND LAUNCH A UFO.
Your payload can be some thin balsa wood to which you can staple 6 foot X 1 inch strips of aluminum foil cut from your kitchen roll.
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Did not the Chinese complain we shot the first one down?