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US weighing decision to shoot down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean, official tells Fox News
Fox News ^ | February 4, 2023 1:10pm EST | By Lucas Y. Tomlinson , Chris Pandolfo

Posted on 02/04/2023 10:24:04 AM PST by conservative98

The U.S. is considering a plan to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon once it crosses over the Atlantic Ocean, where it could fall without causing harm to anyone below and potentially be recovered, a senior U.S. official told Fox News.

President Biden addressed the balloon briefly Saturday in response to a reporter's question, saying, "we're going to take care of it."

This is a developing story and will be updated.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 10percent4bigguy; agendafreetv; beijingbiden; biden; bidencrimefamily; bidenisxipuppet; chinaspyballoon; chinesespyballoon; lookner; spyballoon
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To: conservative98

Well to be fair that is the approximate spot the last nukes fell on the United States. Still buried in the coastal mud.


21 posted on 02/04/2023 10:33:51 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: conservative98

22 posted on 02/04/2023 10:33:56 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ConservaTexan
Shoot it down after it’s gathered all it Intel and relayed back to China. Good plan.

And when it can be lost in the ocean with no one able to witness the full extent of the equipment they had hovering over our lands.

23 posted on 02/04/2023 10:34:01 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: BenLurkin
That way the CbiCom spy tech will go straight to Davy Jones’ locker.


Not necessarily.

Punch a few holes in the envelope and it will come down very slowly and hit the water partially inflated for a soft landing. The partially inflated balloon will keep the thing from sinking. Water damage to the ISR pod can be a problem but can be mitigated if they work fast to recover.

Even if damaged, the ISR pod contents can give a good read on Chinese tech and who they stole It from

24 posted on 02/04/2023 10:34:14 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Spok

Kellogg said if it fall past continental shelf we will not be able to recover it due to size.


25 posted on 02/04/2023 10:34:22 AM PST by mware
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Intel Crab: F15 at 40,000+ feet.


26 posted on 02/04/2023 10:34:27 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: conservative98

Utter crap.


27 posted on 02/04/2023 10:35:04 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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I’ll bet if that balloon had, “Trump 2024,” stenciled on it they’d have shot it down licketty split.


28 posted on 02/04/2023 10:35:07 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: mware

That phone ringing right now is to scramble navy seal teams.


29 posted on 02/04/2023 10:35:39 AM PST by mware
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To: Lockbox

“We gotta do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs.”


30 posted on 02/04/2023 10:36:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lockbox

*yep, shoot down to appease the mob but do it where no one will ever be able to examine the remains for the balloon’s true purpose. Win-Win for Joe!*

Pretty smart wouldn’t you say? Obama was ‘buried at sea’.with The ‘muslim burial’ must have appeased somebody.


31 posted on 02/04/2023 10:36:11 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: conservative98

All i know is- it was discovered that biden had top secret documents all over the place, and next thing we know, a chinese balloon if floating around our country

coincidence? I think not


32 posted on 02/04/2023 10:36:15 AM PST by Bob434
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Intel Crab: Myrtle Beach


33 posted on 02/04/2023 10:36:21 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: conservative98

Live feed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQaM3i885A


34 posted on 02/04/2023 10:36:57 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Winds on the South Carolina Coast are out of the NORTHEAST, SO COULD BLOW INTO GEORGIA, there is a circular flow trailing those northeast storms could go then across Alabama and then up into Tennessee. and maybe Virgina,
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/south-carolina/wind-flow

Hopefully will land at Joe’s beachouse. Maybe CCP is trying to burn his house to hide the evidence, haha.


35 posted on 02/04/2023 10:36:59 AM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: dinodino

The fing bastards got what they were after shot the thing they won’t care.


36 posted on 02/04/2023 10:37:57 AM PST by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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37 posted on 02/04/2023 10:38:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: cookcounty

Wow. They better act fast.


38 posted on 02/04/2023 10:38:14 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: conservative98

The research balloons we launched in the 50’s as a means to learn more about space,

weighed about 4,000 pounds.

If the thing doesn’t completely burn up (which it probably won’t) I don’t want it landing on my house.


39 posted on 02/04/2023 10:38:20 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: conservative98

Great. After it has collected and transmitted all the information it needs. A little late, it is…


40 posted on 02/04/2023 10:38:29 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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