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Navy Releases Images of Downed Chinese Spy Balloon off the Coast of Myrtle Beach
gateway pundit ^ | 2/7/2023 | jim hoft

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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balloonboybiden; chinaspyballoon; chinesespyballoon
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To: ETCM

from the videos i’ve seen, there was a circular connecting section between the balloon and the actual scaffold holding the instruments, and THAT, from what i’ve seen is where missile hit and detached the entire surveillance package

you can see it fall away...

i think that’s the interconnecting structure

but i can understand them not showing better pix 8^)

i just want to know they went down and got it


61 posted on 02/07/2023 7:40:46 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ETCM

what bothers me is they had a rough idea where they were going to down the balloon, why the Navy wasn’t there circling the area wi ships and helos like in days of old when retrieving the capsules back in the day is beyond me

the whole thing stinks


62 posted on 02/07/2023 7:44:35 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Lurker

It’s truly unbelievable. They’re not morons, though—they’re just evil.


63 posted on 02/07/2023 7:47:58 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: drypowder

Here is a documentary of what really happened at Area 51 in 1947.
The military released this to use as plausible deniability in the future.

Star Trek DS9 : Little Green Men II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0HeOJeX-wM


64 posted on 02/07/2023 8:23:17 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: ETCM
Seems like it would have been more prudent to hit the balloon and leave the payload more intact for recovery.

Not if your orders were to destroy the instrument package to cover up for the Chinese and the Chinese puppets in the White House.


65 posted on 02/08/2023 1:27:54 AM PST by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself, was she?")
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To: balch3
World War III is going to be such epic fun.

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.


66 posted on 02/08/2023 2:06:31 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SuperLuminal

[The goals of depopulation through sudden-death-syndrome, miscarriages, and infertility must be continued...]

Don’t forget ObamaScare. Where strangers determine if you’re worth saving after age 75..........

What could possibly go wrong?


67 posted on 02/08/2023 2:08:04 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: rxh4n1

yep


68 posted on 02/08/2023 2:08:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

The United States of America does not have the Industrial Base to fight another war. Nor the National Character or will.


69 posted on 02/08/2023 2:10:02 AM PST by sport
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To: dfwgator

Like everything these days.

But I’m sure their “shots” weren’t saline at all...

Nope. Not a chance.


70 posted on 02/08/2023 2:10:13 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: spokeshave
[and the boat is still tipping over]

SEE? Hank Johnson was CORRECT about Guam! And all you doubters didn't believe him! C'mon man!!!


71 posted on 02/08/2023 2:13:18 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt

Yep, that’s a popped balloon alright...


72 posted on 02/08/2023 2:14:44 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: sport

Certainly not a conventional one.

Biden’s Afghanistan pull-out debacle was beyond embarrassing...and pathetic...and deadly.


73 posted on 02/08/2023 2:15:40 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hot Tabasco

But is it the balloon that was shot down?


74 posted on 02/08/2023 2:18:46 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: minnesota_bound

Love that episode!


75 posted on 02/08/2023 2:20:22 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: plain talk

And ... they brought up 153 fish.

A triangular number. Really cool number.


76 posted on 02/08/2023 2:21:07 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I haven’t been able to find the full episode. Just bits here and there. Guess I’ll have to look again.


77 posted on 02/08/2023 2:22:24 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt

Now it costs 20 millions more to recover the water soaked and short circuited debris. Than a simple shoot down over land.

More taxpayer monies blown. They could give a *****


78 posted on 02/08/2023 2:27:29 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: SaveFerris

BBC America just started running the series. Maybe DVD it? I don’t think it is available any where else except Paramount+. S4-E7. Looks like Amazon will sell you the season for $30.


79 posted on 02/08/2023 2:32:16 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Thanks!


80 posted on 02/08/2023 2:35:45 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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