Curious case of China's balloon

Hey look ma the circus is coming, no that’s the CCP son.

Do we normally allow these things to happen? I remember reading about the Cold War were anything going into enemy airspace besides a commercial flight was likely to get attacked.

This is odd.

“The US is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States, a senior defense official said on Thursday.”

Ryder said, adding that the US military decided against shooting the balloon down.

“While the balloon’s current flight path carries it over “a number of sensitive sites,” the official said it does not present a significant intelligence gathering risk.”

Maybe there just surveying for more US land to buy

The spy game is so weird

“Look everybody, a ballon is spying on us. We’re cool with it though, we’re just going to watch it. Here: read this news story about it”.

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Engelbert Humperdinck is going back on tour

It’s odd, I didn’t know spy balloons where still a thing.

It was a trial balloon.

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Yeah they supposedly camouflaged all our nuke sites in Montana as opposed to just blowing the thing out of the sky.

Made no sense to me at all.

They are saying they didn’t want to shoot it down for fear the debris would hurt someone, in the middle of Montana, oh yeah, such a dense population, no way they can find a spot that wouldn’t pose a hazard. Something fishy going on.

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Oh, but they tracking and monitoring it. :roll_eyes:

Don’t over exert your brain working on the issue Milley.

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Think of all the greenhouse gasses that would have been released if they shot it down.

Lets be honest had Biden ordered it shot down we would be knee deep in threads about how senile Biden is trying to start a war. With lots of comments about Chinese satellites been able to see anything the spy balloon could.

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Oh yes, everyone knows it’s an act of war to shoot down spy balloons being flown in your air space over sensitive areas.

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All I am saying is that for those who do not support Biden, no matter what he does he would be criticized. Pretty much same as Trump would have been or any President for that matter.

No President would be widely criticized for shooting down a foreign spy balloon over US territory, please.

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Sure because this forum is a bastion of well balanced logical reasoning when it cones to opportunities to dog pile on a president we overall disagree with and do not want in office. And that goes for both sides.

We can agree to disagree.

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What people on this forum have to say about it is irrelevant.

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Or seeding the air with that mind control stuff! :crazy_face:

Chicomtrails!!

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Satellites are allowed
Planes are not
Balloons . . . hmm that’s a head scratcher. No, shooting it down woulda been okay.

I have never, ever seen so much of the entire world just filled…with hot air. :sunglasses: :tumbler_glass:

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Badum-tish :drum:

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Balloons can gather more than satellites, it’s not just optical, signals intel as well.