I live here to and it went over my house as well! Howdy neighbor haha
Balloons China Style
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Nothings being collected. It’s been jammed since first spotted in MN.
Why make it white in color? Did they intend on being caught and are f’n with us?
I think they love it. My uncle and his brother have slowly sold off their farming business. They once had about 12K acres. So him living on 30 seems small. But he loves the landscape and being that close to the mountains.
I just had a flashback to Spaceballs. The jam scene
I grew up in East Flat Rock near the post office and my mom still lives there, I live out off Hwy 64 going towards etowah right before Broyles Rd
Hmmm, just maybe the government wants to see where it’s going and wants to see what data it has collected. Wonder if the government is processing any signals that the floater is generating. You’re right shoot’er down.
Drive by the post office taking my daughter to hillandale every weekday for school
A kid I coached the last couple of years in football lives there. Do you know the Lindsey’s?
Icy…this is, at the very least, bad optics…there’s just no way to spin this & despite your allegiance to the Democratic Party, I think you know this…
It was not undetected. They knew about it long before it got to the US
Lol you will defend anything from this administration. Our admin is actually playing 4D underwater chess by letting them do a nation wide surveillance operation, right?
I'm not defending the administration, I'm calling most of the posters itt stupid for having absolutely no idea how this works and jumping to conclusions that are also stupid.
There are multiple conservatives/non liberals itt agreeing with me.
So, as I've said to others itt, stop being stupid.
Yeah just got a pic from friends in Myrtle beach with it floating down after 2 loud booms.
By far the worst administration in my lifetime. The fall of 2024 cannot get here soon enough … just have to overcome the cheating.
Lol. Really what intel are they going to gather from a balloon that they couldn't gather from a satellite or as owners of quite a bit of real estate in this country via spies, etc? This whole thing seems like another smoke screen to me.
It's not a balloon. It's a UAV. It's just using balloon technology to stay airborne. It's no different than flying a a Chinese version of the Predator over our country.
All that money and effort just to go to Myrtle Beach.
Taking a deep breath, I can see that this COA was accepted by the administration as the least risk COA. Over the Atlantic there's zero chance it fall's on Zek's barn, no media circus around the crash site, you mitigate the risk of secondary effect's (harmful chemicals if any, forest fires caused by the crash, "booby traps" etc).
Still, you let a foreign intelligence aircraft fly all over your country embarrassing you. Shooting this down over Alaska has the same level of risk. There isn't crap in Alaska for it to damage.
If we didn't see this over Alaska, then there's some Generals that need to be retired immediately. However, as I work Air Defense for a living, I doubt we didn't see this coming from the time it launched in China.
For those that suggested we are "jamming it." What are you jamming it with? Nothing ground based I assure you. Not with an aircraft either. What are you jamming? The guidance feed? Unlikely. A nickle says that this was on a preplanned GPS route. They don't need active control of it the device. They can download new waypoints into its Nav computer pretty easily to change its course. You jamming the package data? Okay, that assumes they are live feeding the information back to China. Do we know the freq they are doing that on? Maybe, maybe not. You likely aren't figuring that freq out on the fly. If we do, do you want to reveal to Xi that we have a capability to interfere with their feeds? That just provided them better intel than they'd get from any picture. Probably best to save that card for when they invade Taiwan.
This device wasn't meant to collect. It was meant to embarrass. Mission accomplished.
Now we need to send a Carrier Strike Group to circle the Spratly Islands for the next six months.
The administration should also openly sell new weapon systems to Taiwan to piss Xi off.
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You mean data that already available my commercial means? They can get that from the FCC.
You think these sort of balloon's are made at Hasbro?
This is a sophisticated aerial device.