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1 posted on 02/07/2023 10:32:36 AM PST by conservative98
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Is someone inflating this story or is it a buncha’ hot air?


2 posted on 02/07/2023 10:33:38 AM PST by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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“Near????????????????????????”


3 posted on 02/07/2023 10:34:24 AM PST by conservative98
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Text didn’t copy correctly....It should say NEAR.

A slightly different story emerged in the Washington Post, which reported that the Pentagon knew of “past Chinese surveillance balloons “NEAR” Florida and Texas.” Wait a minute: Near Florida and Texas? What does near mean?


5 posted on 02/07/2023 10:36:27 AM PST by conservative98
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They didn’t tell PDJT because they were afraid he might order them to do something about it.


7 posted on 02/07/2023 10:37:30 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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This CCP balloon was huge with a payload the size of a bus. My theory is that previous CCP “weather” balloons were much smaller. So were dismissed. All these balloons were probing our defenses and responses. The most recent one was taking photos/spying and transmitting back to China.


8 posted on 02/07/2023 10:39:09 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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Now just wait a minute! We’re the Biden Administration, and when we get caught doing something bone-headed, it is our job to spin it to look like the Trump Administration was much worse, and it is YOUR DUTY to report it as we tell it, without asking embarrassing questions!

Are we clear?


9 posted on 02/07/2023 10:40:30 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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The forehead slapping obvious part is - who the ding dong hell is going spy from an untethered balloon with zero control over its route?! China has almost 50 satellites in orbit, every one of them capable of spying. Has anyone noticed that neither the US or any other country uses spy BALLOONS? Gee, I wonder why? With agriculture crucial to China feeding a billion and a half souls, maybe keeping track of subtle high altitude humidity, ion content and static charge on air particles could be considered a rational means of predicting crop destroying weather events, particularly in mid winter.

People gotta stop thinking in 3 color, 3 finger cartoons.


10 posted on 02/07/2023 10:43:46 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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The real question here is “How credible is Jeff Bezos’ nasty little blog?”


11 posted on 02/07/2023 10:45:03 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Imho, the bigger problem is the military/intelligence community appears to have a problem with the civilian authority, and that needs to get nipped in the bud.


12 posted on 02/07/2023 10:47:13 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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dont worry

they will have a new lie tomorrow

cuz this one aint workin


13 posted on 02/07/2023 10:48:46 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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We no doubt have many of our own spy satellites hovering high over China, so perhaps our military leaders are concerned that us taking down their spy balloon means that they can now justify taking down our satellites.


18 posted on 02/07/2023 10:55:23 AM PST by jimwatx
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From the article: “On Sunday, administration sources began to tell reporters that, yes, the Chinese incursions had happened during the Trump years but that nobody knew about them. And not just nobody in the sense of the public. Nobody in the government’s vast military intelligence and surveillance apparatus noticed them, either. They all missed the giant Chinese balloons.”

If they weren’t detected then, how do we know they existed?


19 posted on 02/07/2023 10:55:45 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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China is doing what we do to them. We have sent planes over China or very near China over their 12 miles zone for nearly 100 years. They have not shot down anything. But in the past two decades they have started to defend their airspace. Both America and China have thousands of low atmosphere satellites which surveil the area underneath them. They listen and they record anything they can, light, energy output, heat, traffic, communications, etc. Google maps is output from these satellites. Chinese may be doing the same.

But something to watch out for, is that China claims the entire China sea. Which reaches out to the Philippines and down to Malaysia, Vietnam and North to Japan. China may start shooting down airplanes in that area. They will site our destruction of their balloon for the reason.


21 posted on 02/07/2023 11:04:00 AM PST by poinq
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Did general millie keep balloons secret form President Trump miliey called China also?? traitors in the pentagon.
22 posted on 02/07/2023 11:09:33 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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Occam’s razor would tend to support explanation #1.


23 posted on 02/07/2023 11:17:06 AM PST by traderrob6
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How much did Joe get from China for doing nothing about the balloon(s)?


30 posted on 02/07/2023 11:46:57 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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The media is acting like the area they are searching is massive-—

15 football fields==300’ X 15 = 4500 feet long by 4500 feet wide.

4500 X 4500 = 20,250,000 sq ft.

A SECTION of land is 1 mile (5280 X 5280) by 1 mile==640 acres—==27,878,400 sq feet.

The area being searched is less than ONE SECTION of land.


33 posted on 02/07/2023 12:07:53 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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If they previously went undetected, how in the Wild Wild World of Sports can they now say they passed over? Did the Chinese tell them, "Hey, round eyes, you missed several over the last few years"?

Sounds like somebody just made something up for some obscure reason.

Is my thinking flawed somehow?

35 posted on 02/07/2023 12:46:05 PM PST by GingisK
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This is the government we should believe about the 2029 meeting with Apophis...


40 posted on 02/07/2023 12:52:41 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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Answers are needed now.

Weak and meaningless ending to the article, which fully demonstrated the FJB administration does not protect America and should be driven out of office IMMEDIATELY.

42 posted on 02/07/2023 1:10:49 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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