Posted on 02/03/2023 5:05:40 AM PST by Red Badger
The U.S. military is currently monitoring a suspected Chinese spy balloon that has been hovering for several days over the northern United States.
Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement on Thursday that the “high-altitude surveillance balloon” poses no immediate threat to the United States and will be monitored for the time-being.
“The United States Government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” said Ryder, adding:
The U.S. government, including NORAD, continues to track and monitor it closely. The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. Instances of this kind of balloon activity have been observed previously over the past several years. Once the balloon was detected, the U.S. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information.
According to NBC News, the balloon was initially spotted over Billings, Montana, after it had flown over the Aleutian Islands and through Canada. The exact whereabouts of the balloon remains unknown to the public at this time.
“Currently we assess that this balloon has limited additive value from an intelligence collection perspective over and above what the PRC can do through other means,” “Nevertheless we are taking all necessary steps to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information.”
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It better be painted with the gay rainbow or China’s in BIG trouble!!
Time to try out those high powered lasers the military has been developing.
A serious country would bring it down.
Only over your house, fair?
This could be a “hold muh beer” moment…
Shoot it down. Simple solution.
We are always “monitoring” things. Which means “doing nothing” as usual. LOL
It would be pretty cool if a hole would open up in that thing and drop Klaus Schwab out without a parachute.
LOL
I saw a photo of a balloon in the news a few days ago not sure if it was the one, but it had Chinese lettering all over it. If China was going to pull anything like this, why on earth would it self-identify on the thing in the first place? This stinks to high heaven.
A country that doesn't have a Chinese operative as President would shoot it down.
shoot the cargo package and let the balloon float away and up.
Image if it had an EMP nuke payload?
Or other weapons unimagined?
We don’t know what that thing is carrying... We’re assuming it is for observation, but...
They also have numerous satellites, so why go retro?
Atmospheric sampling?
What the hell is going on in this country?
Splash the zero.
What else is going on?? Was this story pushed by the Feds to distract from something else?
The decision has been made NOT to target the balloon or impede it in any way.
The CCP really needs the information it is relaying as we speak. Joe is merely being compliant.
Of course, they could have simply called up General Mi Li and gotten most of it in hard copy.
I think Trump would have had it brought down.
Hell it could be a test of a EMP deployment system. And the feeble President, the Chinese Governor General of North America, doddles.
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