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U.S. shoots down Chinese balloon over Atlantic
Just the News ^ | Updated: February 4, 2023 - 2:46pm | Just the News staff

Posted on 02/04/2023 11:54:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The U.S. has destroyed a Chinese balloon that had been floating over the continental United States over the past several days.

Footage on social media showed the balloon exploding during flight and beginning to fall toward the earth.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: chinaspyballoon; partofthedeal; toolittletoolate
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It had collected all the information the CCP wanted once it was over the Atlantic, so their foreign agent Brandon was free to take it out.
1 posted on 02/04/2023 11:54:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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Video
Chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast of SC https://rumble.com/v28cls8-chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-off-the-coast-of-sc.html


2 posted on 02/04/2023 11:56:01 AM PST by janetjanet998
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The payload self destructed. We probably got nothing. Watch the video it clearly falls faster than the balloon and breaks up


3 posted on 02/04/2023 11:56:15 AM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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Mission Accomplished.

The CHINESE Mission.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 11:56:45 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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The fing bastards got what they were after shoot the thing they won’t care.


5 posted on 02/04/2023 11:57:23 AM PST by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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So are they going to catch the proceeds of the shoot-down?

Or will they let seawater purge it of all value to the defense and intelligence communities.


6 posted on 02/04/2023 11:57:26 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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Wow. That was a close one. Imagine if it been over the CONUS.....


7 posted on 02/04/2023 11:59:58 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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John Kerry: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die shooting down a Chi-com spy balloon?


8 posted on 02/04/2023 12:00:11 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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A day late and a dollar short. Great job!


9 posted on 02/04/2023 12:00:42 PM PST by loucon (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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Exactly.


10 posted on 02/04/2023 12:00:43 PM PST by livius
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- Or - it self-destructed over the Atlantic to prevent anyone looking at the technologies aboard it after it had completed its spy mission.

I don't give Biden and his goons credit for anything.

11 posted on 02/04/2023 12:00:44 PM PST by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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Dry run. They now know they can send as many as they want.


12 posted on 02/04/2023 12:02:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Honestly at this point what difference does it make?

Love, cankles


13 posted on 02/04/2023 12:02:33 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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If you look at the payload falling, it appears that there are a series of small flashes (explosions ?) as it breaks up and trails the chassis structure that presumably held the power panels and sensors


14 posted on 02/04/2023 12:05:12 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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And now impossible to recover whatever tech was being used. And it has been wiped, like with a cloth.


15 posted on 02/04/2023 12:05:39 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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I saw FOX weekend Host sucking up to Biden.

The network that refused to ask Joe about Hunter in a Presidential Debate.

And announced it wouldn’t happen beforehand.

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16 posted on 02/04/2023 12:07:09 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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Off South Carolina I’m sure Lindsey Graham fired the shots...Sarc


17 posted on 02/04/2023 12:07:18 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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If you zoom in close you can see Hillary hitting it with a hammer


18 posted on 02/04/2023 12:09:57 PM PST by Blue Highway
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and the flash drive backup copies of Hunters laptop


19 posted on 02/04/2023 12:10:32 PM PST by bigbob
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China Joe’s take-out had arrived.


20 posted on 02/04/2023 12:12:09 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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