Posted on 02/07/2023 4:42:07 PM PST by bitt
The FAA on Saturday shut down air space near the Atlantic as the Pentagon gears up to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon.
At 2:40 p.m. ET, just off the coast of the South Carolinas, the Pentagon shot down the spy balloon.
On Tuesday, the US Navy posted photos showing sailors retrieving parts of downed Chinese spy surveillance.
Images that were posted on Twitter by the United States Fleet Forces show sailors from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recovering a piece of the balloon on Sunday.
“US Navy Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023,” the agency wrote on Twitter.
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Where is the rest of it? You know, all those electronic devices that were hanging off it.
Oh, they’re at the bottom of the ocean.
I’m sure it’ll be much easier to collect things from there than it would have been in, oh I don’t know, MONTANA OR ALASKA!
Morons. We are being governed by morons.
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Does the fabric have a “handwoven by your local uyghurs” label on it somewhere?
Yup... That looks like a balloon.
There are at least 9 guys on that little craft - that’s really crowded!
“Morons. We are being governed by morons.”
They’re not morons, they’re covering up.
If I had a knife or something I really wanted to hide …I couldn’t think of a better place to throw it than that.
I think it’s quite shallow there. Continental shelf and all that.
Well, that’s just great. With a little luck the Navy might fish a good portion of the ChiCom balloon out of the water. But if the balloon had been downed over land instead we’d have all of it, the whole thing.
Can’t have that! It would upset Biden’s Chinese associates. So let’s bring the balloon down over water. And then we can celebrate what scraps of it we can find.
Biden is getting us into a war with Russia and China at the same time.
It’s like the Calypso, only different.
Why am I wary about this being true pictures. We can always trust what our government and military tells us. Right?
......................Right?
“Biden is getting us into a war with Russia and China at the same time.”
Explain your reasoning.
That doesn’t look like it’s the size of 3 Greyhound buses.
That picture looks like the apostles casting nets not a world class surveillance operation. Pitiful.
So our military, with all their equipment, sent this little pleasure boat out to retrieve the “balloon” and it’s payload that was 200 feet high and as big as several school buses? The material sure does look flimsy for something that was designed to fly so high and for so long.
Hopefully, we have some FR experts who can explain it to me.
It’s the payload that counts, not the balloon itself. Purposeful misdirection.
Where is the rest of it? You know, all those electronic devices that were hanging off it....
What I saw hanging off looked to be solar panels for the electronics on board.
Depth is 47 feet where it went down
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