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US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean
Fox News ^ | February 4, 2023 2:39pm EST | Adam Sabes

Posted on 02/04/2023 11:47:11 AM PST by conservative98

The U.S. military has shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, the balloon was shot down by the U.S. military on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantic; balloon; china; chinese; goooh; letsgobrandon; q; r; russia; shot; spartansixdelta; spy; spyballoon; usmilitary
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To: Herodes

Did they recover the remains to verify what sort of photography and transmission equipment the balloon was armed with?


61 posted on 02/04/2023 12:08:14 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: conservative98
Gents - and ladies - it self-destructed at the end of its spy mission: that wasn't a missile or a gun projectile hitting it. That was a small charge used to destroy the balloon, while the instruments were weighted to sink in the sea.

The Chinese are not stupid - but our woke leaders are. I will never buy the excuse that "they couldn't shoot it down because it might fall on someone" About 97% percent of the USA is completely unoccupied and there was very little danger that it would've landed on anyone if it was destroyed over the northwest portion of our country.

62 posted on 02/04/2023 12:08:59 PM PST by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: conservative98

Way to late...Shame on Biden.....Biteme will brag about his decisive action at the state of the union yet he FAILED to protect the American people. #WorstPresidentEver


63 posted on 02/04/2023 12:09:41 PM PST by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: conservative98

Wonder if they’ll be a whole bunch of new cases of the “Suddenlies” in South Carolina?


64 posted on 02/04/2023 12:09:55 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I suspect Seals are on that right now.


65 posted on 02/04/2023 12:10:19 PM PST by mware
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To: packagingguy

How you gonna jam a directional UHF signal aimed at a geosynchronous satellite? Duh.


66 posted on 02/04/2023 12:11:54 PM PST by bigbob
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To: conservative98

For the first time in my life I can finally say I’m proud to be an American.


67 posted on 02/04/2023 12:12:10 PM PST by JZelle
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To: conservative98

Where was Nena?

68 posted on 02/04/2023 12:13:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservative98

Bookmark


69 posted on 02/04/2023 12:13:12 PM PST by FRinCanada2 (Who is going to see Season 3 Finale this week? Please visit ReadyRoom.Life)
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To: JZelle

I know how we can stop this. Trump could just announce “No more balloons.”

Oops. Forgot. He’s not president anymore.


70 posted on 02/04/2023 12:13:45 PM PST by firebrand
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To: conservative98

71 posted on 02/04/2023 12:13:52 PM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: conservative98

The damn payload self destructed. It separated from the balloon after it was hit and you can see a series of small flashes a few seconds later as the individual components were detonated.


72 posted on 02/04/2023 12:13:59 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: Drew68
"I can't imagine this balloon saw anything that these satellites haven't already seen.

Maybe, perhaps, it actually was a weather balloon duhhh hurhhh durhhhh droooool."

No.

"Just because the Chinese lie most of the time doesn't mean they lie all of the time."

Yes, they do, droop. The 2 greatest enemies to the United States are -- not by chance -- the two uncivilizations that not only have no punishment for lying, but have devolved to make lying preferable.

Confucianism endorses lying to save face zuo mianzi.

Islam endorses lying to any non-slime taqiyya.

73 posted on 02/04/2023 12:14:59 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: spiffy

You forgot about Corn Pop


74 posted on 02/04/2023 12:15:30 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Drew68

I don’t feel like giving the CCP or its military one iota of a benefit of a doubt.
Some of their hardware shows up over our airspace- shoot it down with extreme prejudice.

I have no quarrel with the Chinese people, just their government.

And DAMN the politicians-living and dead-who made us so dependent on them.


75 posted on 02/04/2023 12:17:10 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Drew68

“. I’m confident it’ll be recovered. We’ve got plenty of Navy assets operating in the area.”

I’m confident the public will be lied to about what they find.


76 posted on 02/04/2023 12:17:13 PM PST by George from New England
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To: conservative98

All the evidence goes to the bottom of the ocean. Red Chinese subs will soon start their 10-month trip from China across the Pacific Ocean, down around the tip of South America and up to the point where it was shot down. They will then look for their spy camera that took photos of Disney World in Florida.


77 posted on 02/04/2023 12:18:11 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Jesus Christ is THE Way, THE Truth & THE Life. He and He alone IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN!! No other)
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To: Arkansas Tider

I believe one of the DOD guys did say yesterday that the surveillance capacity had been neutralized...

Hopefully some useful debris can be collected.


78 posted on 02/04/2023 12:18:22 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: lasereye

I’m not sure anything embarrasses him.


79 posted on 02/04/2023 12:18:49 PM PST by MachIV
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To: left that other site

Damn straight!


80 posted on 02/04/2023 12:18:50 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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