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Trump, top national security officials refute claim that Chinese spy balloons transited US under last admin
Fox News ^ | February 5th, 2023 | By Brooke Singman

Posted on 02/05/2023 8:42:31 AM PST by Mariner

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To: Mariner
Look, the combination of:

1) Millions of cellphone cameras and many thousands of standalone digital cameras (many with powerful zoom lens).

2) FAA certified commercial airplane tracking radar that could track objects flying as high as 65,600 feet.

...Would have easily found any slow-moving balloon flying over. And both were common way back in 2017.

61 posted on 02/05/2023 2:27:08 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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UAP’s

During Biden’s term for 2 years. There have been 391 UAP’s around or in our airspace Vs the 119 over 17 years.

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf#page3

Page 1. “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) reporting is increasing, enabling a greater awareness of the airspace and increased opportunity to resolve UAP events. In addition to the 144 UAP reports covered during the 17 years of UAP reporting included in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) preliminary assessment, there have been 247 new reports and another 119 that were either since discovered or reported after the preliminary assessment’s time period. This totals 510 UAP reports as of 30 August 2022. Additional information is provided in the classified version of this report.”

Page 5

“UAP continue to represent a hazard to flight safety and pose a possible adversary collection threat. Since the publication of the ODNI preliminary assessment in June 2021, UAP reporting has increased, partially due to a concentrated effort to destigmatize the topic of UAP and instead recognize the potential risks that it poses as both a safety of flight hazard and potential adversarial activity. Whereas there were previously 144 UAP reports covered during the 17 years of UAP reporting included in the ODNI preliminary assessment on UAP, there have been 247 more UAP reports during the 17 months since. Combined with another 119 reports either discovered or reported late that fell within the original 17 year period but were not included in the preliminary assessment, a total of 510 UAP reports are currently catalogued.


62 posted on 02/05/2023 2:52:10 PM PST by HollyB
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“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.”

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3287173/dod-statement-on-high-altitude-surveillance-balloon/

(No indication of when /which years. But, action was taken immediately).


63 posted on 02/05/2023 3:03:54 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Mariner

We’re surrounded by lies and liars.


64 posted on 02/05/2023 3:29:25 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: unlearner

We could only see it when it armed its phasers


65 posted on 02/05/2023 4:13:11 PM PST by Moleman
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To: Mariner

The world has gone bat merd crazy, exactly what Kaiser Klaus and the “Committee” want. Get ready to fight back, it is life, Liberty or DEATH.


66 posted on 02/05/2023 4:26:08 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: Mariner
"Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the last administration"

That means these Ballons not so briefly had to have flown over Kanadikstan. So Justine Trudope should be stepping to the Mic to confirm this any minute now...tic tok...tic tok...

67 posted on 02/05/2023 4:41:07 PM PST by DAC21
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To: Eleutheria5

Donnerwetter! Goebbels speaking Yiddish? Who knew? ;-)


68 posted on 02/05/2023 5:13:28 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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See, these are the same people who attempted to criminally undermine, compromise and overthrow a candidate and then a legitimately elected U.S. President.

Was the spycraft a U.S. government operation? Which president put a stop to those totally unfair trade policies with China? They were killing us, who put a stop to that? Who was on the take?

Now literally everything we touch, see and purchase is from China.

You'd think this would make people take to the streets, or at least cause wide spread alarm.

69 posted on 02/05/2023 5:34:15 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mariner

We’re supposed to now believe the TLAs had Trumps back and hid the balloons to protect him. ????
They really think we’re stupid.


70 posted on 02/05/2023 6:30:23 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: joesbucks

Trump closed the border to China by January 31, 2020. He was called a xenophob by Pelosie and MSM.


71 posted on 02/05/2023 6:33:38 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: Mariner

US Military/DOD ...”Trust us, we made sure no data was transmitted...”


72 posted on 02/05/2023 7:13:15 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

73 posted on 02/05/2023 7:49:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Chgogal
Totally different.

Trump bought into that China containing the virus. It was reported on January 23rd, 2020….,, “ President Donald Trump thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for his country's handling of the coronavirus, shortly after American health officials confirmed a second case in the United States. "China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus," Trump wrote in a post on Twitter. "The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"

In an interview on Wednesday, Trump said that he believed the virus was under control. He also said he had confidence in the Chinese government to be transparent.

74 posted on 02/05/2023 8:00:34 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: AnAmericanMother

That’s where all my German comes from, and I’m sure my spelling was all wrong. lol.


75 posted on 02/05/2023 10:20:02 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Just kidding! I speak German with a heavy rural Austrian accent (it’s a long story), and everyone makes fun of it. There’s a puppet character in Germany called Kasperle, and he has a sidekick called Seppel who is your average country bumpkin. So my high-German-speaking friends call me Seppel.


76 posted on 02/06/2023 12:20:05 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Well, like I said, my German is derived from my Yiddish, which is written in Hebrew characters, so I don’t know an umlaud from two fly specs over a vowel, and consequently my spelling is farblunjet ingantzen. But an occasional tourist from Bavaria and I can palaver a bit, and I can make fun of Brandon as a student of Goebbels, which he is.


77 posted on 02/06/2023 1:22:19 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Mariner

The lie has already circled the globe 3 or 4 times.


78 posted on 02/06/2023 1:34:44 PM PST by hattend
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To: Eleutheria5
Well, the orthography may be a bit creative, but the meaning is ganz klar!!

Brandon isn't a student of anybody - and it's not just a question of dementia. He has always been dumb as a stump. Er hat 'ne Meise . . .

79 posted on 02/06/2023 3:16:18 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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