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Remember the Chinese Balloon
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:46 pm
I do and much like Las Vegas Shooting, Charlie Kirk Asssination, Trump shooter, etc it all gets swept away.
This article is from 2023 and I don't ever remember this being a big reveal, somehow hidden by MSM.
U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate
LINK
NBC News is not naming the provider to protect the identity of its sources. <---this right here is criminal.
Can you imagine 1938 and a German U-boat off the east coast is coming ashore using local land lines and the media saying we know whose phones were used but those are our sources and we must protect them?
and there is more
Here's what was aboard that Chinese spy balloon shot down in 2023
LINK
5 US companies had technology on the craft.
This article is from 2023 and I don't ever remember this being a big reveal, somehow hidden by MSM.
U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate
LINK
NBC News is not naming the provider to protect the identity of its sources. <---this right here is criminal.
Can you imagine 1938 and a German U-boat off the east coast is coming ashore using local land lines and the media saying we know whose phones were used but those are our sources and we must protect them?
and there is more
Here's what was aboard that Chinese spy balloon shot down in 2023
LINK
5 US companies had technology on the craft.
This post was edited on 1/30/26 at 3:31 pm
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Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:48 pm to winkchance
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Connection Usage: The balloon connected to a U.S.-based provider to send and receive communications, which enabled it to transmit "burst transmissions" or high-bandwidth data packages over short periods.
Purpose: The communications were mainly for controlling the balloon's navigation.
Data Handling: While the balloon could communicate with Beijing, it stored surveillance imagery and other collected data for later retrieval rather than sending it in real-time, CNN reported.
Provider Information: Although the specific provider was not publicly named in the initial NBC News report, the company involved has denied that its network was used based on their own internal investigation.
I wonder how much the flight and the missile used cost taxpayers?
quote:
The Raptor, based at Langley Air Force Base, used a single AIM-9X Sidewinder, fired from 58,000 feet in the air, to shoot down the balloon that was operating at 62,000 feet, a senior military official told reporters on Saturday afternoon.
AIM-9X Sidewinder Cost: Approximately $430,000–$472,000 per unit.
Video stills of the Chinese Spy Balloon after it was hit with an AIM-9X anti-air missile fired from a F-22 Raptor on Feb. 4, 2023.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:53 pm to winkchance
One of the most bizarre things to happen in recent memory.
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Posted on 1/28/26 at 2:58 pm to winkchance
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Chinese Balloon
Chinese Barroon
Fify
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:00 pm to winkchance
And why did it take so long for us to shoot it down? Biden needed permission from Chi Chi Ping?
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:01 pm to winkchance
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U.S. President Joe Biden described the balloon as carrying two railroad cars' equivalent of spy equipment, however stated that it was "not a major breach", and that he also believed that the Chinese leadership was not aware of the balloon.
BOX CAR SPECIFICATIONS
Tare Weight (lbs.) 82,500
2 of them empty would've been 160,000+ lbs
quote:
By February 13, the U.S. had recovered a significant portion of the balloon's payload, including sensors, electronics, and structural sections. The entire payload measured 30 feet (9.1 m), weighed more than 2,000 pounds
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:02 pm to winkchance
quote:
it all gets swept away.
Wut?
That balloon was discussed for weeks both here and in the mainstream media.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:03 pm to andwesway
quote:
And why did it take so long for us to shoot it down? Biden needed permission from Chi Chi Ping?
That damn thing floated all the way from Alaska to the Atlantic before Biden did anything.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:04 pm to andwesway
I do seem to remember that fricking thing floating around the skies forever before we shot it down
…and extremely bizarre given all the publicity around it and thinking how simple and quick that exercise should’ve been.
…and extremely bizarre given all the publicity around it and thinking how simple and quick that exercise should’ve been.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:04 pm to SidetrackSilvera
Isn’t there a Netflix doc on balloon boy?
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:05 pm to winkchance
IIRC it traversed through remote arctic Alaska and Canada, where cell towers to ping are few and far between. That leaves a satellite ISP as the likely source. Hmm.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:21 pm to winkchance
quote:Yeah, I remember Roswell too.
Remember the Chinese Balloon
Posted on 1/28/26 at 3:23 pm to Jim Rockford
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That leaves a satellite ISP as the likely source. Hmm.
Eron Musk
Posted on 1/28/26 at 4:25 pm to winkchance
I remember Biden's bunch shooting down a weather balloon that wound up belonging to an amateur radio club. It was registered and everything.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:16 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
IIRC it traversed through remote arctic Alaska and Canada, where cell towers to ping are few and far between. That leaves a satellite ISP as the likely source. Hmm.
I know very little about this technology, but is it possible that the balloon hacked the provider to gain internet service, whether satellite or land-based?
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:19 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:12 pm to winkchance
Using a us data provider is nothing. Anyone can spin up a multi carrier sim and have it connect up to multiple cellular carriers across the world including the US. Additionally it could have also had a satellite backup. There are many options.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:27 pm to Jim Rockford
I would have thought that flying that high, it would have to have been using satellite, not cellular. Ever try to make a cell call from an airplane? This thing was higher than that.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:31 pm to winkchance
Biden is tied with Lincoln as worst president ever, but they were right to not shoot it down over US soil, not knowing what the payload was. Could have been a bunch of zombie spores .Wait til it gets over the ocean then destroy it, and recover what you can recover.
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