Posted on 02/09/2023 7:43:04 AM PST by Conservativetpa
A senior State Department official with the Biden administration to CNN that the Chinese surveillance balloon, which was shot down by an F-22 Raptor on Saturday, was operating with electronic surveillance technology capable of ‘monitoring’ US communications.
The balloon “was capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations” and was part of a fleet that had flown over “more than 40 countries across five continents.”
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I don’t believe a damn thing our government says.
I don’t believe a damn thing our government says.
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Yes just an innocent civilian weather balloon doing its thing for the CCP.
I could believe this one.
Which is why it should have been shot down immediately upon entering US airspace.
gee, ya think? I wonder why it was called a spy balloon...
I'll bet it was able to take pictures too!!
A corrupt government whose lies are condoned by the news media will lie about everything.
That they needed to use balloon-borne instruments to collect this data tells us something about their satellite intelligence-gathering capability.
Our SIGINT satellites use dish antennas that unfold to great size in orbit. I’m sure that’s not the only advanced capability they have.
Perhaps the Chinese are not able to copy this technology, so they have to get their receiving equipment closer to the sources in order to get useful results.
All information in this post is from publicly available sources.
Did they use a satellite up-link, or was some sort of terrestrial system used?
Why send up your most advanced fighter jet when you could have sent up a 3rd Gen fighter to do the same thing? We are worried about monitoring coms and we send up a jet for which the Chinese probably gathered information on.
Spot on!
Maybe to receive certain signals effectively, they have to be at lower altitudes than what satellites fly at.
Bingo MM. It should have shot down over the Aleutians. I am not 100% sure, but I think there are F-22s at Elmendorf.
One would think we have the ability to detect if someone is probing our communications.
INTERESTING THOUGHT that this balloon MAY HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED AND STEERED BY Chinese operatives ON THE GROUND WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. Has anyone else thought about that other than myself?
STRANGELY, the most detailed photograph I have seen of this craft was a JOKE IMAGE and here it is. Don't know if this is an actual photo or not (ignore the text on the balloon of course).
Biden approved!
It’s putting coordinates on THEIR system so we can’t block.
https://thefederalist.com/2018/03/02/fusion-gpss-anti-trump-researcher-avoid-surveillance-ham-radio-license/
Since FTX was exposed, the Communist Chinese government could also be transmitting cryptocurrency payments directly to Democrats.
We do it with RC-135s, EC-130s.
Why not just use the tik tok app on millions of phones.
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