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Pentagon releases pilot’s close-up photo of Chinese balloon
AP ^
| 2/22/2023
| TARA COPP
Posted on 02/23/2023 11:50:42 AM PST by VanShuyten
A U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon took a close-up photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balloon; china
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Photo at site
To: VanShuyten
Real actual photo!!
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:52:30 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: VanShuyten
Selfie
To: VanShuyten
Photo at Breitbart:
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:54:34 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: BBQToadRibs2
Great! Now everybody in the world’s gonna know that a U2 can fly higher than 60K feet.
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:55:54 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: All
Here is what you need for a weather balloon:
Barometer, digital
Thermometer, digital
BeiDou receiver (Chinese GPS system)
BeiDou will inform latitude/longitude, and delta for wind
A command receiver for the descent valve
A data transmitter for the gathered info
A battery
Solar panels for the battery
Looks like a weather balloon to me
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:56:17 AM PST
by
Owen
To: Owen
my bad, I forgot the computer to orchestrate data
collection and transmission to receiver
It looks like a weather balloon to me.
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:57:27 AM PST
by
Owen
To: Sirius Lee
its been common knowledge for decades
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:57:45 AM PST
by
hattend
To: Sirius Lee
I sense a missing sarcasm tag.
To: hattend
forgot to add /s to my post. sorry.
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posted on
02/23/2023 11:59:28 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
02/23/2023 12:00:15 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: VanShuyten
The article fails to mention the obvious point that the shadow of the U2 can be seen on the balloon envelope.
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posted on
02/23/2023 12:00:22 PM PST
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
To: Sirius Lee
Hello, hello (hola)
I’m at a place called Vertigo (¿dónde está?)
It’s everything I wish I didn’t know
Except you give me something
I can feel, feel
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posted on
02/23/2023 12:01:18 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Owen
Looks like a weather balloon to me
so why didn't China tell the US that their balloon was accidentally entering US airspace?
if everything really was on the up-and-up?
To: Sirius Lee
I’ve lost all self-control
Been living like a mole
Now going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation
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posted on
02/23/2023 12:01:55 PM PST
by
dangus
To: BBQToadRibs2
Seems like that U-2 could have somehow ‘captured’ or ‘wounded’ that balloon, without Sidewinders.
To: Sirius Lee
In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly, a red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below
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posted on
02/23/2023 12:02:28 PM PST
by
dangus
To: VanShuyten
I’d love to see the photos from the other three.
To: Sirius Lee
I think they had to drop down to that level.
To: VanShuyten
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posted on
02/23/2023 12:04:00 PM PST
by
red-dawg
(They're going to have to pry my gasoline powered car from my cold, dead hands.)
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