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The Chinese spying on the Queen City. I think the US plans to shoot this balloon down once it is over the ocean.
1 posted on 02/04/2023 8:26:32 AM PST by Cecily
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2 posted on 02/04/2023 8:27:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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A joint China/United States military exercise?


3 posted on 02/04/2023 8:28:27 AM PST by GSWarrior
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Lok at the upper air currents on the NOAA site, at 900+ millibars it could not have been carried by the upper air wind currents alone.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 8:29:51 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nationThat of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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IMO, the balloon is pinpointing exact locations of strategic energy reserves and military installations with the blessings of the BIDEN administration.


6 posted on 02/04/2023 8:32:59 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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China only copies technology. I would bet these balloons came from American designs of purpose and hardware. There may be really good reason American government doesn’t want that thing coming down in whole or in pieces where inquiring minds and hands begin onion peeling.


7 posted on 02/04/2023 8:33:08 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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“U.S. officials have been tracking the balloon”

What a relief we are taking this seriously.


8 posted on 02/04/2023 8:33:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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After it already collected the flight patterns over the US.


9 posted on 02/04/2023 8:34:08 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Meanwhile, China Joe Biden is quiet. He is a TRAITOR.


22 posted on 02/04/2023 8:54:16 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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#Pfertility


24 posted on 02/04/2023 8:55:01 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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The British members of Parliament raise hell with the British leader who has to sit with them to explain his policies during sesssions of Parliament.

If that balloon isn’t shot down, the Republicans should do that at the State of the Union speech and we can see how the prissy old idiot reacts.


27 posted on 02/04/2023 8:59:07 AM PST by odawg
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Oh for the good ol’ days when President Trump hosted Xi Jinping at Mar-a- Lago.


28 posted on 02/04/2023 9:00:13 AM PST by Toespi
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I think the US plans to shoot this balloon down once it is over the ocean.

No, this one is included in the 10% paid to the big guy. From what I read here last night, the Chinese tried to get a freebie in by sending in a second balloon. That one was shot down over Montana? Brandon is not going to stand for that! If you want a second balloon, you better pay up front, with a nice amount to mah boy, and a lil some for General She/They so he keeps quiet about it.

30 posted on 02/04/2023 9:12:40 AM PST by Moorings
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Wow. the NOAA model sure was accurate.

/s

Xiden war room:


31 posted on 02/04/2023 9:14:35 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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I’m up in the Hickory area. I never could see it.


32 posted on 02/04/2023 9:15:00 AM PST by Vaden (Russia: epicenter of globohomo)
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But won’t that hurt the whales? Oh my! When will the eis be done?

This whole affair is silly.


39 posted on 02/04/2023 9:43:45 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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What happens if we send a baloon to fly over China?


43 posted on 02/04/2023 10:03:03 AM PST by Exit148
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FYI: The warhead on the US Sidewinder missile did NOT detonate when it impacted the Chinese War Balloon. It could be because the target was too soft to cause the missile’s impact fuse to work, and maybe its proximity fuse could not “see” the thin floating balloon enough, that it was unable to reflect enough of a signal to “read” its proximity. But more likely? I believe the US Air Force removed the explosive warhead from the missile, so they were basically firing a supersonic dart at the balloon, so as to take no chances of damaging the technological apparatus it was carrying!


57 posted on 02/05/2023 8:04:50 AM PST by 2harddrive (FREE 3D-printable Firearm blueprints available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/)
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