US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean

Fox News ^ | February 4, 2023 2:39pm EST | Adam Sabes

[conservative98]

The U.S. military has shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, the balloon was shot down by the U.S. military on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources

[packagingguy]

Yes, I read it this morning and tried to find it my my browser history. It’s somewhere, I know I read it, I just can’t find it again.

[Thunder90]

Also Russia was tracking it, and more importantly watching our reaction to it woth their spy satellites and agents on the ground.

[BykrBayb]

How do we know it wasn’t dispensing Covid-23 all along its route?

[left that other site]

I remember the captured US Spy Plane back in 2001. That bit of news was totally eclipsed by 9/11, but I still remember how furious the Chinese were about the US invading their alleged airspace.

[HollyB]

So they have confirmed shooting down the one in Montana last night?

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1621675623444877314?s=20&t=tJtu-PNk5T8sUBeLcgX3SA

[4Liberty]

[Wilderness Conservative]

[genxer]

That is more what I was thinking is there was a payload if it got shot down over land ...either EMP or Bioweapon

[Jamestown1630]

They’ve said that was done soon after it was sighted.

[bitt]

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[Texan4Life]

Close up of the balloon being shot down by an F-22 with a single AIM-9X missile

https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1621980596346953729

THE WAR IS OVER !!!

[dragnet2]

Maybe, perhaps, it actually was a weather balloon? Just because the Chinese lie most of the time doesn't mean they lie all of the time.

[BusterDog]

I’m as inclined to believe they lost control of some weather balloons just like they said as I am to believe anything else.

But, no matter whether you like Biden or don’t, whether you are woke or a traditionalist, you can get behind shooting down the balloon, I guess.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they paraded the balloon wreckage through the House for the State of the Union. Certainly expecting Dark Brandon to make an appearance.

[ladyjane]

Should have been shot down over the PACIFIC

So the wind could blow the germs over the west coast?

[BusterDog]

“Biden shoots down balloon after it seeds the atmosphere with new Covid virus and other bio weapons.”

*****

This is the dumbest place on the internet.

[plain talk]

“And, oh by the way, so NOTHING can be recovered and used to analyze what had been surveyed and what the instruments were. What the transmitter(s) , what the accuracy and focus style and methods of the active and receivers and cameras.”

Exactly. Besides .. just shooting it down is pretty primitive. We should have demonstrated the ability to exercise a capture and controlled descent of surveillance balloons in our territory. Hopefully we at least have the ability to do this — if not that’s pathetic.

[M_Continuum]

What proof do you have it was something else? Some folks create conspiracies out of thin air 🙄

[MayflowerMadam]

“whether you like Biden or don’t, whether you are woke or a traditionalist, you can get behind shooting down the balloon, I guess.”

I “guess” I could get behind it IF it had happened over the Aleutians, or in the water east of the Aleutians. Can’t get excited over China’s bitch, Biden, waiting until it had collected and transmitted data from over the USA. No doubt, he and Xi had an understanding.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Did General Milley call his Chinese counterpart first and ask if they had all the intel they needed?

[Shady]

“Joe” was under orders not to. Now with the silo intelligence in their pockets they can more accurately target their first strike capabilities… or, with an EMP fry the circuits then go ahead and blast the crap out of us..