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U.S. Military Monitoring Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon
Breitbart ^ | 2 Feb 2023 | PAUL BOIS

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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To: Alas Babylon!

We don’t know anything about it. It could be an EMP for all we know.
Not doing anything that makes any sense at ALL is SOP for Biden and Co.


41 posted on 02/03/2023 5:34:49 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Red Badger

Since it sailed over Alaska then Canada to get here, how do they know it’s from China? Does it have a Made in China tag on it?


42 posted on 02/03/2023 5:35:14 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Red Badger

That’s great - it’s not enough that surveillance is being done from our own government, now the Chinese are getting into the act. I feel like we’re in the “Truman Show”.


43 posted on 02/03/2023 5:39:18 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Red Badger

How can we take the word of our Government about the origin or purpose of this object?

It is easy to blame everything on a bogeyman since people will believe anything about the Chinese or Russians.

I don’t know what it is, but I certainly don’t take our government’s word at face value.

Life in these United States...nearly 40 years after Orwell’s “1984.”


44 posted on 02/03/2023 5:40:34 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Hot Tabasco

Maybe it’s Russian.


45 posted on 02/03/2023 5:40:51 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: z3n
Fulton surface-to-air recovery system.

Was also demonstrated in a James Bond film:

One would think that the USAF or CIA brass (at least the ones not on the ChiCom payroll), could resurrect that system, catch the balloon and drag it out to the ocean, release it and shoot in down. Of course, if it has a nuke to cause an EMP, all bets are off.

46 posted on 02/03/2023 5:41:29 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Red Badger
Just heard a second balloon seen in Canada!
47 posted on 02/03/2023 5:41:42 AM PST by lizma2
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To: Red Badger

Imagine the damage it could do if the next time it carried an EMP weapon?


48 posted on 02/03/2023 5:41:59 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: Travis McGee

The military is worried about the consequences of debris hitting something on the ground. Wherever it winds up, it will make a mess. Sending over a balloon like that was a hairbrained stunt by the Chinese. Overreacting will play into their hands.


49 posted on 02/03/2023 5:42:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: albie

Not with this administration, they would probably paint it for them.


50 posted on 02/03/2023 5:42:35 AM PST by lula (Shine the light of truth Lord, confound the deceiver I pray...AMEN!)
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To: MikeSteelBe

If I recall the SR71 Blackbird frustrated surface to air at 80,000.


51 posted on 02/03/2023 5:43:46 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Red Badger

TRIAL BALLOON


52 posted on 02/03/2023 5:43:50 AM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Red Badger
They found some writing on the balloon.


53 posted on 02/03/2023 5:49:21 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: EEGator

The test is to see how we react.


54 posted on 02/03/2023 5:49:42 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Travis McGee

My guess is that the “military” recommended not shooting the balloon down because it can’t.

The altitude is beyond shooting down capabilities


55 posted on 02/03/2023 5:49:46 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Yo-Yo

Thats too good!


56 posted on 02/03/2023 5:50:21 AM PST by Skeez
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To: Yo-Yo

What if it was NOT a Chinese or Russian balloon?

What if it was, in fact, an ALIEN PROBE like we send to Mars or Jupiter?

What if it is just testing us to see how we react to THEIR PRESENCE?.....................


57 posted on 02/03/2023 5:51:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Didn’t the Japanese try something like this during WW2?

Maybe it’s another load of virus.


58 posted on 02/03/2023 5:56:18 AM PST by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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To: Red Badger

Chinese surveillance balloon over US causes fearful gasbagging

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/chinese_surveillance_balloon_over_us/


59 posted on 02/03/2023 5:56:46 AM PST by FarCenter
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