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Given the recent furor over the balloon floating over America, this was an interesting little throwback.

To be honest, there is some weird cognitive dissonance in sending bucketloads of weapons to Ukraine because apparently it is of vital interest to American security, but an unmanned Chinese spycraft can just float over military bases in the USA with no armed response.

1 posted on 02/03/2023 9:40:53 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Hope everyone’s ready for an emp. Probly should keep HT’s in a faraday cage.

Made my first ever HF contact last Sunday, with a guy in Canada, during winter field day.

We’re getting ready. Are you?
ps I got 74 contacts! Which ain’t too shabby for a noob.

https://winterfieldday.com/


2 posted on 02/03/2023 10:00:22 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Let's Go Brandon!)
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Is the Pentagon buying them from China? Maybe they’re just making delivery.


3 posted on 02/03/2023 10:05:27 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Abrogating one’s Amendment-guaranteed that makes unlawful invasion of one’s (including an incorporated entity) personal privacy and business by our elected government.


4 posted on 02/03/2023 10:09:44 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux (Let There Be [God's] Light!) )
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

oddley Sierra Nevada Corporation does surveillance work.

I applied there


5 posted on 02/03/2023 10:13:51 PM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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The Pfentagon


7 posted on 02/03/2023 10:19:13 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

One commentator said: Biden and the DoD are unwilling to shoot-down this Chinese balloon - for the simple reason that we also have spy balloons flying over China.


10 posted on 02/03/2023 10:39:45 PM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Very interesting....great post!


11 posted on 02/03/2023 11:08:25 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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Biden got paid to let this thing fly over Am as long as it wants. China paid biden to NOT shoot it down. THIS is how much biden cares abt Am and its people. He gets millions. Today he is going for a long weekend and our military will TRACK this thing and have a mtg next week to figure out what to do. Good job dems. They knew this thing was coming for 3 months. Could have shot it down over the water or Alaska. Joey never thought we would know. Wonder how many millions he got paid to destroy Am? TRAITOR.


13 posted on 02/03/2023 11:20:21 PM PST by Singermom
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

I feel like Im living in Clown World.

Is EVERYONE a lying, sociopathic freak?


14 posted on 02/03/2023 11:21:35 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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NBD
Our communist masters have a plan that is almost complete...

All we can do is to relax and keep grazing blissfully...

Once we are in the camps, we will not need to worry...


15 posted on 02/03/2023 11:53:14 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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Monkey werx has been showing radar of these balloons for months.
16 posted on 02/04/2023 1:48:37 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
US Taxpayers pay for their own surveillance
20 posted on 02/04/2023 4:13:55 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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Wouldn’t be the first time US Taxpayers paid china


21 posted on 02/04/2023 4:16:52 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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“Homeland security threats”.


Gee, I wonder who THAT could include? Shades of The Prisoner, to boot!


22 posted on 02/04/2023 5:03:31 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Per news reports from last summer, the US also sends high altitude balloons over China and Russia.


26 posted on 02/04/2023 5:33:17 AM PST by Chengdu54
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

From August of 2019...

Well, isn’t that timing interesting.


27 posted on 02/04/2023 5:34:22 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007; All

Interesting post; thread. Thanks.


29 posted on 02/04/2023 6:06:35 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

NBD
Our communist masters have a plan that is almost complete...

All we can do is to relax and keep grazing blissfully...

Once we are in the camps, we will not need to worry...


31 posted on 02/05/2023 1:09:59 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
The Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY23 puts $15 million toward stratospheric balloon research The bill also includes an additional $10.2 million for high-altitude balloons for SOUTHCOM as an “unfunded requirement” — or wish-list item — under its classified programs list.
linky
32 posted on 02/05/2023 1:28:50 PM PST by aspasia
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