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U.S. tracked Chinese spy balloon from the start but held off on attack, NORAD commander says
washingtontimes.com ^ | 2/6/2023 | mike glenn

Posted on 02/06/2023 7:01:03 PM PST by bitt

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To: JJBookman

RE: decide UFO or weather balloon then act....

The famous Roswell incident was later detailed on several unsolved mystery shows even before Ancient Aliens.
Funny thing is the government said it was a weather balloon and described it but then it turned out that type was not used until a year after the incident. They forced the guy in the pictures looking at aluminum foil on the floor to lie or he would be declared mentally unstable, lose his military pension and be labeled unfit to serve.

An adult woman interviewed was his daughter. She said “I remember it so well because I was a little girl and it upset me when I came in and saw my father crying. I didn’t like to see my father cry. He was saying “I either lie about it or they’re taking away everything from us.” He said there was no UFO and the debris was just from a balloon.


41 posted on 02/06/2023 10:20:24 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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42 posted on 02/06/2023 10:20:33 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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Lordy what an idiot. He had zero clue if this was a danger or not. All he knew was it was a baloon. He’s leap to it’s not danger is shocking


43 posted on 02/06/2023 10:39:39 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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This general should be fired.


44 posted on 02/07/2023 12:26:56 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Halt! Who goes there? Advance and be recognized.

Nope, the US Cuck Force folds like their cheap bus driver uniform . Sob needs to be court martialed. . Who has NOT beeen compromised by the Changs ? 🇨🇳💩🤡☠️🇨🇳

45 posted on 02/07/2023 12:42:42 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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“I could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating a hostile act or hostile intent.”“

This guy is just making believe it’s not any threat . All he knows is that a hostile government sent an airliner sized thing over our territory. How can he conclude anything about it other than that? He’s stating unsupported assumptions as facts.


46 posted on 02/07/2023 2:55:52 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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What is the use of our military if they don’t sound an alarm about things like this? I believe we may be headed to annihilation.


47 posted on 02/07/2023 3:30:08 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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Well, it could have been worse.
Instead of balloons with a large surveillance payload, they could have been TU-22 backfire bombers.....


48 posted on 02/07/2023 3:57:51 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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the Pentagon has declared over and over
that it hated Pres. Trump because he PROTECTED the
Republic and its border.

THEY love China, and gladly allow fentanyl and
spy satellites in, to murder the very Americans
they themselves want dead - as they
have sworn to Obama to do.


49 posted on 02/07/2023 4:12:39 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Ok, let me get this. A surveillance balloon does not pose a threat to national security? You need to be relieved of command.


50 posted on 02/07/2023 4:17:15 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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What a pathetic explanation.


51 posted on 02/07/2023 6:57:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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incompetence


52 posted on 02/07/2023 7:25:32 AM PST by linMcHlp
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Not long after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., Condoleeza Rice testified before Congress, saying that she did not know [in advance,] the “time and place” of the pending attacks by Al-Qaeda / Taliban upon the United States (terra firma).

Report of the Joint [Congressional] Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CRPT-107srpt351-5.pdf

Pg. 118 of the report, aka pg. 150 of that PDF file:

17. Finding: Despite intelligence reporting from 1998 through the summer of 2001 indicating that Usama Bin Ladin’s terrorist network intended to strike inside the United States, the United States Government did not undertake a comprehensive effort to implement defensive measures in the United States.

[Further down that page:]

“The intelligence that was acquired and shared by the Intelligence Community was not specific as to time and place, but should have been sufficient to prompt action to insure a heightened sense of alert and implementation of additional defensive measures.”


53 posted on 02/07/2023 8:30:59 AM PST by linMcHlp
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This general should be fired.

How low we have sunk. A general with integrity would resign rather than agree to lie like this.


54 posted on 02/07/2023 12:02:54 PM PST by rxh4n1
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“Instead of balloons with a large surveillance payload, they could have been TU-22 backfire bombers...”

Instead, it could have been a balloon with a EPB, and we’d be no threat at all...


55 posted on 02/07/2023 7:14:44 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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