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'Explosion in the sky' above Billings Montana where Chinese balloon was spotted above U.S. airspace - resident witness jet zoom by followed by trail of smoke
The Daily Mail ^ | Februay 3, 2023 | ronny reyes

Posted on 02/03/2023 5:06:41 PM PST by abb

Residents in Billings, Montana, reported an 'explosion in the sky' after US officials warned of a Chinese spy balloon flying over the region.

Bizarre video of the aftermath shows a trail of smoke in the sky where the balloon was last spotted.

Dolly Moore, who took video of the scene, said she 'saw a jet go by so fast and then explosion in the sky. '

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: balloon; boom; chinaspyballoon; explosion; montana
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To: Karl Spooner
It's on the ground now, and it is Sentient!


141 posted on 02/03/2023 6:37:12 PM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: C210N

Be seeing you.


142 posted on 02/03/2023 6:37:48 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TigersEye

The demonstrations of naval ship-based lasers show a row boat catching fire a mile or two away. Not a lot of laser power yet. They need 500 kW to do what you’re thinking, I believe is the engineering estimate..


143 posted on 02/03/2023 6:38:55 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: The Great RJ

Impeachable offense number what, 630?


144 posted on 02/03/2023 6:39:18 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: steve86

“ You can’t tell up or down, coming or going with contrails or rocket exhaust.... Very misleading .. Like Chinese “ICBM” off Los Angeles. Was just jet contrail in light of setting sun.”
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CORRECTAMUNDO!


145 posted on 02/03/2023 6:40:41 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: steve86

You can tell up or down when the contrail passes through two levels of clouds and has a disturbance in one small section caused by wind. If the craft were traveling level in the stratum of air where the wind was all of it would be quite disturbed.

All three of those elements are apparent in the video.


146 posted on 02/03/2023 6:40:56 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: C210N

I am not a number, I am...oh, OK. I’m a number.


147 posted on 02/03/2023 6:41:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: steve86

Oh, OK.


148 posted on 02/03/2023 6:41:33 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: TigersEye

Related

https://twitter.com/Chase7601/status/1621695555847221249


149 posted on 02/03/2023 6:42:24 PM PST by combat_boots ( )
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To: TigersEye

Well, I have not watched it that closely.


150 posted on 02/03/2023 6:42:29 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Salman

If there is a ChiCom balloon, or balloons, in our skies it is still an assumption that Biden had the DoD shoot one down and not some sort of decoy of their own so Tater Traitor could look good.


151 posted on 02/03/2023 6:43:57 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: steve86

Oh, OK.


152 posted on 02/03/2023 6:45:02 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: silent majority rising

“so we can find out everything about it.”

With the balloon destroyed we have to assume it was full of classified documents recently sent aloft at Biden’s beach house.


153 posted on 02/03/2023 6:46:04 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: combat_boots

Thanks. That sure looks like it’s falling doesn’t it?


154 posted on 02/03/2023 6:48:04 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: SeekAndFind
If they blew up the balloon, then there goes the equipment that went with it.

Most likely was equipped with self-destruct charges to prevent forensic examinations.

The Chinese would have little chance to recover these units after they launch them. They would not want other people to recover them.

I wonder how the command-and-control systems worked for these units. Also how did they send reports back? Maybe our guys can find enough pieces to determine these things.

155 posted on 02/03/2023 6:52:12 PM PST by flamberge (Everybody will hate it when we all play by the same new rules.)
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To: abb

Is there a site tracking the current location of the balloon?


156 posted on 02/03/2023 6:53:08 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: TigersEye

How could the National Guard with a humvee be there blocking the road that quickly?


157 posted on 02/03/2023 6:53:11 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: abb

The video is not of an explosion. It is a airliner contrail


158 posted on 02/03/2023 6:55:07 PM PST by safisoft
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To: TigersEye

Is that definitely the same event or is someone posting unrelated crap like an ordinary contrail. Again, can’t tell the orientation.


159 posted on 02/03/2023 6:55:17 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: steve86

Coordinated ops, they figured a bounding box within which stuff would drop, and set vehicles around the edges of said box before the driveby on the second balloon.
Now watch, these things are actually manned.


160 posted on 02/03/2023 6:55:21 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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