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Kind of…it all started with the research done at the HAARP station up in Alaska…that only lasted a few years until they became aware of the possibilities of the technologies they were experimenting with. Then the facility was turned over to the University of Alaska (nothing to see here)…
It’s the reason the pentagon spokesman couldn’t be baited into talking about how the “balloon”is being controlled/maneuvered.
Quantum physics/mechanics at work…

Covid 23

Along with 1000 pounds of Fentanyl powder....

Could not possibly have anything to do with changing altitude to catch the wind blowing most closely to the dsired direction.

Really, The Chins are probably laughing their asses off at the knee-jerk reaction Americans are displaying over this "spy" balloon

Do you really think they would do something so blatantly recognizable and obvious? I really think it is a civilian research balloon. Then again, it could be a dry run of some sort.....

Why did our security apparatus allow this air born monstrosity to enter our air space? IMO, anything of that sort that is not identifiable should be destroyed long before it reaches these shores. The problem is Westerly winds could spread pathogens inland even if the craft is shot down outside US air space.

Good thing y'all solved the Idaho murders. Now you have time to get to the bottom of the Chink balloon.

The fact those bidenettes running our defense remain mum on this doesn't surprise me....but

Pretty disappointed this thing got past Big Schtick without some sort of response........

Weather Balloon Conspiracies...

Wife says I spend too much time on the Fire - "Come back to Earth!"

If you're an American citizen wondering how Washington DC could spend $850+B of your tax dollars on defense annually and yet can't manage to shoot down a foreign spy balloon in US air space - you're not crazy & you're not the only one thinking it.

With what??? 50cal.? Bigger, smaller?? Missile??

Where are the bullets/missile debris going after they pass through the balloon??? Everywhere you point to shoot has an unsafe backstop.....

Back in the 80's, whilst I was working at Miami ARTCC, an air traffic facility, the balloon/small blimp that was tethered over Cudjoe Key slipped it's mooring and went drifting across the gulf trailing a MILE or so of tether.....

A concerned boater decided to rescue same and tied it off to his boat...... well this was early in the day, and as the sun warmed things up the balloon became more buoyant, lifted the boat out of the water, dumped all occupants into the gulf, and proceeded to drift across the gulf once again...

What to do??

Scamble jets out of homestead......

they chose a missile, problem solved!

Looks like long range practice to me.

Definitely a job for the 6.5 CM

That thing is likely at 80,000 feet of higher. What are we going to shoot it down with. That’s beyond the operational ceiling of anything we have as far as aircraft go. And it’s likely made of Mylar with us invisible to radar. Likely all the cables and equipment underneath is made from composites as well. Probably got the radar signature or a housefly. It gives off no heat either.

So, how are you going to shoot it down? All of our missiles use radar or heat. Nothing to lock on. It’s too high for a gun run. It’s beyond the service ceiling of any fighter we have. They could do a zoom climb and get there but then to zoom climb and do a gun run on something that is basically moving at walking speed? Sounds really tough.

It’s really kind of an ingenious relatively low tech solution. We don’t have anything designed to shoot down balloons at more than 80,000 feet.

No worries ....
Batman is gonna save us at the last second

Go for it 😊

Don't shoot at it...
You might hit some cows or horses with gravity hits.....



https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...-balloon-floating-the-fuuuk#Post18095093

then there would be a lot less dhimmicrat voters next election

Balloons are now Quantum controlled?

Lol

Maybe we won't pop it because of the possibility that it has a Wheat Rot bacteria in it. In the 70s, the US studied the possibility of deploying weapons that targeted the enemy's food sources. Principally using a wheat rot bacteria that kills and/or prevents the wheat grain head from developing, and deploying in the air and using the winds to spread it.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26058290

The Chicoms are dirty bastards and I have no doubt they have all this in their hip pocket in the event of war. Hell, we probably handed them our studies on it.