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US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean
Fox News ^ | February 4, 2023 2:39pm EST | Adam Sabes

Posted on 02/04/2023 11:47:11 AM PST by 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

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantic; balloon; china; chinese; goooh; letsgobrandon; q; r; russia; shot; spartansixdelta; spy; spyballoon; usmilitary
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To: Shady

Yeah, 150 for a weather balloon? Don’t think so….


161 posted on 02/04/2023 2:24:45 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: conservative98

Biden said he ordered it shot down Wednesday, why not over Alaska???? Did he just wake up from his nap.


162 posted on 02/04/2023 2:27:35 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ElkGroveDan

I’m still waiting to book my flight from Florida to California via Hot Air Balloon. How long will this flight take me? Can walk there faster on foot imo.


163 posted on 02/04/2023 2:28:03 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Drew68

I’m a teetotaler myself but did anyone go to a bar and hear the slurred drinkers say “You da man, Joe. Show them Commies. You got my vote, pal?”

When JFK sent troops to the Bay of Pigs Jackie Gleason had a monologue on his regular show where he said “It’s about time he got up out of that rocking chair and sat on a Castro.”

To younger people: JFK used a rocker partly to help improve his painful back from serious injuries saving lives in the WWII Pt109 incident. A Castro Convertible was a type of couch popular in the 1950 and 60s.

Sadly, Gleason and the rest of us heard later the invasion was a bust and a humiliation to the US.


164 posted on 02/04/2023 2:29:48 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98
$20 the F22 pilots huddled and the one who flew drew short straw.

Badge (ribbon) of shame:


165 posted on 02/04/2023 2:32:26 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: conservative98

Gee. I don’t suppose it occurred to our brass to down it where they could recover and study it.


166 posted on 02/04/2023 2:33:14 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Jack Posobiec: “They only let that balloon stay up bc it was white. We all know what they’d do to a black balloon” - MSNBC, probably

https://truthsocial.com/users/JackPosobiec/statuses/109801302054351820


167 posted on 02/04/2023 2:34:39 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: Blue Highway

If they place it in the jet stream…


168 posted on 02/04/2023 2:36:27 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nationThat of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: bitt

I bet it was a killing pedojoe had to be forced to do


169 posted on 02/04/2023 2:37:15 PM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: conservative98

A couple interesting articles about our own and Chinas

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860

https://www.military.com/history/3-spy-aircraft-were-also-weather-balloons.html

The Pentagon plans to spend $27.1 million in fiscal year 2023 on balloon-related projects to get its own recon balloons into the stratosphere. It may seem like an idea from the 1960s, but high-altitude balloons 60,000-90,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, equipped with machine learning algorithms and solar panels, are a cheap, effective way to watch hypersonic missile testing from America’s geopolitical rivals. They can also loiter for much, much longer than any drone. If any of the massive balloons get forced down, they’d just be another weather balloon, which the National Weather Service still uses.

Please do not try to shoot down an NWS weather balloon.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2022/07/05/the-future-of-war-includes-balloons-00044104


170 posted on 02/04/2023 2:42:36 PM PST by HollyB
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To: BykrBayb
All weather balloons have self-destruct mechanisms built into the components, so each component explodes and burns up as it separates from the balloon. We really should trust the CCP.

I don't trust the ChiComs at all. I'm just scratching my head wondering what intelligence an unguided balloon can gather that hasn't already been seen by spy satellites?

171 posted on 02/04/2023 2:51:52 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: toddausauras

With the millions of dollars given to the Brandon Crime Family Syndicate, once and awhile they have to let something happen. Nothing happens for nothing.


172 posted on 02/04/2023 2:51:57 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Drew68

It followed a pretty deliberate path for an “unguided weather balloon,” but if you’re going to trust the Chinese, you have to believe that’s what it was.


173 posted on 02/04/2023 3:00:00 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: conservative98

Is there a history of the track of this “weather balloon/spy balloon/ CBW delivery balloon” so we can know where the Chicom Wuhan cooties were released?


174 posted on 02/04/2023 3:00:03 PM PST by matthew fuller (Democrats aren't about Socialism or Communism. They are about Ghettoism, genocide and infanticide.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

“Yep- how many military bases and missile silos did it fly over.”

Which would be pretty much all of them.


175 posted on 02/04/2023 3:04:21 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. )
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To: frank ballenger
Gleason and the rest of us heard later the invasion was a bust and a humiliation to the US.

It wasn't a bust. JFK pulled the air support and hundreds either died or were taken prisoner and shot. The CIA never forgave JFK and got their revenge in Dallas.

176 posted on 02/04/2023 3:06:05 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Robert A Cook PE

“And, oh by the way, so NOTHING can be recovered and used to analyze what had been surveyed and what the instruments were.”

That had been my second thought.
One thing, this shows that Brandon stays bought.


177 posted on 02/04/2023 3:07:12 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. )
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To: BykrBayb
It followed a pretty deliberate path for an “unguided weather balloon,”

It followed the air currents. We have photographs of it. Clearly, it was unguided.

Still, what intelligence did it gather that the spy satellites missed?

178 posted on 02/04/2023 3:11:14 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Hatteras

Sadly, you’re probably right.


179 posted on 02/04/2023 3:13:25 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Beowulf9

hear hear


180 posted on 02/04/2023 3:17:04 PM PST by Irenic
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