Posted on 02/03/2023 6:22:34 AM PST by McGruff
The People's Republic of China confirmed Friday that the balloon craft floating over the northern United States is Chinese.
"The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed Friday. "Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course."
The spokesperson said China regrets the incident.
The statement continued, "The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure. The Chinese side will continue communicating with the US side and properly handle this unexpected situation caused by force majeure."
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“Unexpected”, again.
They would have caught this but apparently these balloons travel at Mach II and they slipped into our airspace without anyone noticing before it was too late.
There are no civilians in China.
Bullshit.
Interesting
If the John Q Public cellphone videos are any evidence, someone at least in our hemisphere is curious.
China already has very good spy satellites taking pictures of us. They probably don’t need weather balloons to tell them anything that they didn’t already know.
Yeh, sure its just blown off course 6,000 miles so it can hover over a Montana satellite field. I wonder what the excuse will be when its hovering over the Pentagon?
They should have shot this thing down the minute it hit the Aleutian islands. Trump and the GOP are calling for shooting it down.
I accept this explanation because the Chinese are so embedded in our government, colleges, government contractors, and research facilities a balloon would be like 3rd grade level for them.
Just checking the wind direction so none of the radiation blows back on them.
“What the f__k is NORAD for?”
Watching porn?
;-)
They’re thumbing their noses at the US.
Lets send such a balloon over China and see what happens to it. At the very least force this balloon to land and be inspected under threat that if they do not then it will be shot down. The cover story is a bunch of crap.
“force majeure”
Is that an alternative title for the PRC Premier?
True, but it’s hard to drop sensors onto targets from a satellite.
We should have silently shot it down.
Can we determine if that thing is radioactive?
“ Biden lies constantly because the MSM let’s him get away with it.”
That would be so racist. It’s a spy balloon that identifies as a weather balloon. Need to go up there and ask it what pronouns it uses.
The Chicoms were probably testing NORAD.
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