Posted on 02/14/2023 10:05:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
According to Russian sources, between 1956 and 1977, a total of 4,112 balloons were identified above the territory of the Soviet Union, of which 793 were shot down by fighter aircraft. While some of these balloons belonged to civil research organizations, the majority were used for military purposes.The peak of spy balloon activity occurred in January and February 1956, when almost 3,000 balloons were launched; after this, they were much more seldom observed, with the exception of short periods of increased intensity. Many years later, in December 1980 and January 1981, the Soviets recorded the presence of several hundred smaller balloons.
These dates are worth noting. In the first case, it was the period just before the crucial 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), during which Nikita Khrushchev exposed Joseph Stalin’s ‘cult of personality.’ In the second case, these were the days of the planned Warsaw Pact intervention in Poland, in response to the Solidarity movement there.
mr inflatable flappy arm guy was not available for comment
And we’ll never glimpse any wreckage they recover cuz...weather balloon.
if they are non issues..
then why have a “classified” briefing?
They just can’t seem to keep their stories straight here.
One day it’s one made up story, the next is the next made up story, and so it goes.
Notice how Hunter Biden’s laptop is out of the news now?
Except for the Clapper CYA news.
In 1974 the Glomar Explorer retrieved a soviet submarine from 3 mile deep water. I’m sure we can recover this stuff.
Some dumbass in the DoD actually said the reason we’re shooting more of them down now is because we’re now looking for them. As if that’s supposed to make us feel better!
Barney Fife is in charge!
Incompetent boobs are going to get us all killed
Gotta keep the peasants calm. Calm frogs boil.
Seymour Hersh of The New York Times uncovered some of the details of Project Azorian in 1974, but was kept from publication by the action of the Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby. Months after the salvage operation was completed, in February 1975, the Los Angeles Times ran a brief story regarding the CIA operation, which led The New York Times to release Hersh's story.
If it flies it dies.
BIDEN 2024
Lol
and here the Aliens came in peace- offering balloons as peace offerings and gifts of delight, and what does biden do? Shoot em down!
It was detected over Montana and floated for days before being shot down off the Carolina coast.
Negative - NORAD/NORTHCOM detected it over the Aleutian Islands, reported it up the chain and asked for instructions, which were delayed until it was over Montana.
Inexcusable inaction by the White House.
We are using 1/2 a million dollar missiles, should be sending up A-10’s with Gatling guns. But then we have nitwits in charge.
Irrelevant sidebar: An old friend of mine designed the Glomar Explorer. Brilliant guy but also an insufferable jerk.
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