Posted on 02/14/2023 10:05:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Biden administration was caught unawares regarding a Chinese spy balloon that breached US airspace earlier this month. It was detected over Montana and floated for days before being shot down off the Carolina coast. It was a device launched from Central China, and there were multiple opportunities to shoot down this surveillance vehicle. It was not seen as a threat, so everyone moved like molasses. Also, I’m betting that the Biden administration felt no one would care, which was a gross miscalculation. When the White House press pool is all wondering the same thing, like how could this spy balloon penetrate US airspace, and you don’t have a good answer, you know you’re in trouble.
Since then, three more unidentified high-altitude objects have been detected over Canada and Alaska. All were shot down, but no debris has been recovered. The latest object was octagonal-shaped and shot down over Lake Huron. The hunch is that these were possibly surveillance devices, but the truth is that no one knows. The Biden team will get to the bottom of this, though they admitted they don’t know where to go from here; at least John Kirby doesn’t.
The latest explanations are that these UFOs were being used for commercial or benign purposes (via NBC News):
The White House said Tuesday that the U.S. intelligence community’s leading explanation for the three most recent unidentified objects shot down over North America is that they were being used for commercial or benign purposes.
That was the message National Security Council spokesman John Kirby conveyed to reporters Tuesday and said the evaluation is based on what the U.S. knows now, from visual images of the objects.
By the end of the week, the interagency team that President Joe Biden ordered his national security team to coordinate on Monday will lay out parameters regarding how the U.S. will address these objects going forward, Kirby said.
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Mille [sic] said that debris from those three objects has not been recovered due to rocky terrain and other difficult conditions.
"Two, three and four are not yet recovered. They are in very difficult terrain," Milley said. "The second one off the coast of Alaska, that's in some really, really difficult terrain in the Arctic Circle, with very, very low temperatures in the minus 40s. The second one is in the Canadian Rockies and the Yukon. Very difficult to get that one and the third one is in Lake Huron, probably a couple 100 feet depth, so we'll get them eventually, but it's going to take some time to recover those."
Senior officials from the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence also provided a classified briefing on the objects to all senators on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning.
We’ll see how long this clarification holds up.
According to Russian sources, between 1956 and 1977, a total of 4,112 balloons were identified above the territory of the Soviet Union, of which 793 were shot down by fighter aircraft. While some of these balloons belonged to civil research organizations, the majority were used for military purposes.The peak of spy balloon activity occurred in January and February 1956, when almost 3,000 balloons were launched; after this, they were much more seldom observed, with the exception of short periods of increased intensity. Many years later, in December 1980 and January 1981, the Soviets recorded the presence of several hundred smaller balloons.
These dates are worth noting. In the first case, it was the period just before the crucial 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), during which Nikita Khrushchev exposed Joseph Stalin’s ‘cult of personality.’ In the second case, these were the days of the planned Warsaw Pact intervention in Poland, in response to the Solidarity movement there.
mr inflatable flappy arm guy was not available for comment
And we’ll never glimpse any wreckage they recover cuz...weather balloon.
if they are non issues..
then why have a “classified” briefing?
They just can’t seem to keep their stories straight here.
One day it’s one made up story, the next is the next made up story, and so it goes.
Notice how Hunter Biden’s laptop is out of the news now?
Except for the Clapper CYA news.
In 1974 the Glomar Explorer retrieved a soviet submarine from 3 mile deep water. I’m sure we can recover this stuff.
Some dumbass in the DoD actually said the reason we’re shooting more of them down now is because we’re now looking for them. As if that’s supposed to make us feel better!
Barney Fife is in charge!
Incompetent boobs are going to get us all killed
Gotta keep the peasants calm. Calm frogs boil.
Seymour Hersh of The New York Times uncovered some of the details of Project Azorian in 1974, but was kept from publication by the action of the Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby. Months after the salvage operation was completed, in February 1975, the Los Angeles Times ran a brief story regarding the CIA operation, which led The New York Times to release Hersh's story.
If it flies it dies.
BIDEN 2024
Lol
and here the Aliens came in peace- offering balloons as peace offerings and gifts of delight, and what does biden do? Shoot em down!
It was detected over Montana and floated for days before being shot down off the Carolina coast.
Negative - NORAD/NORTHCOM detected it over the Aleutian Islands, reported it up the chain and asked for instructions, which were delayed until it was over Montana.
Inexcusable inaction by the White House.
We are using 1/2 a million dollar missiles, should be sending up A-10’s with Gatling guns. But then we have nitwits in charge.
Irrelevant sidebar: An old friend of mine designed the Glomar Explorer. Brilliant guy but also an insufferable jerk.
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