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China: Balloon over US skies is for research the wind pushed it & it accidentally strayed
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:39 am
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:39 am
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BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite U.S. suspicion it was spying. The discovery further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington.
The Pentagon decided not to shoot down the balloon, which was potentially flying over sensitive sites, because of concerns of hurting people on the ground.
The news came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was expected to make his first trip to Beijing this weekend. The visit has not been formally announced, and it was not immediately clear if the balloon’s discovery would affect his travel plans. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Friday she had no information on the trip.
Blinken would be the highest-ranking member of President Joe Biden’s administration to visit China, on a mission to mitigate a sharp downturn in relations between the countries amid trade disputes and concerns about Beijing’s increasingly aggressive stance toward Taiwan and in the South China Sea.
In a statement late Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the balloon a was civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research. The ministry said the airship has limited “self-steering” capabilities and “deviated far from its planned course” because of winds.
“The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into U.S. airspace due to force majeure,” the statement said, citing a legal term used to refer to events beyond one’s control.
On Thursday, a senior American defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has “very high confidence” that the object spotted over U.S. airspace in recent days was a Chinese high-altitude balloon and that it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
The defense official said the U.S. has assessed that the balloon has “limited” value in terms of providing intelligence that couldn’t be obtained by other technologies, such as spy satellites.
I said yesterday that I don't see what this balloon could do that a high tech satellite couldn't
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Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:40 am to stout
Ah yes, the old weather balloon trick.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:41 am to stout
so, shooting it down shouldn't be a big deal.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:43 am to stout
Biden responded to the statement:
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:44 am to stout
China wants us to shoot it down. Then our idiots in charge will plug it right into the mainframe to investigate it and the spyware will activate like a James Bond movie. Why China made the balloon so conspicuous.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:44 am to stout
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China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:44 am to stout
Outright war with China by 2025. Heard it here first.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:44 am to stout
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The Pentagon decided not to shoot down the balloon, which was potentially flying over sensitive sites, because of concerns of hurting people on the ground.
Montana is 99% land and water with a population density of 7 people per square mile.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:46 am to stout
Member having a President with a backbone...I member.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:47 am to stout
The wind just happened to blow the ballon accross the Pacific Ocean and then stopped blowing it as it was hovering over ICBM silos.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:47 am to lsuhunt555
quote:I was too young to remember Reagan
Member having a President with a backbone...I member.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:48 am to stout
Zappas Stache and dawgfan23456 will be here soon to verify.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:48 am to stout
Yea…nothing to see here…move on !
Man I miss Rush Limbaugh. His commentary on this would be golden.
Man I miss Rush Limbaugh. His commentary on this would be golden.
This post was edited on 2/3/23 at 8:53 am
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:48 am to stout
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I said yesterday that I don't see what this balloon could do that a high tech satellite couldn't
Stay on station gathering intelligence almost INDEFINITELY
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:49 am to HeadSlash
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Montana is 99% land and water with a population density of 7 people per square mile.
Not to mention its at like 80,000 ft so you could probably see it falling form miles and literally just get out of the way, for the entire 5 people it may accidentally cause a problem with.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:50 am to auwaterfowler
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Stay on station gathering intelligence almost INDEFINITELY
What do you think spy satellites do?
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:52 am to stout
Ryan Zinke
@RyanZinke
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Shoot. It. Down.
The Chinese spy balloon is clear provocation. In Montana we do not bow. We shoot it down.
Take the shot.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:53 am to stout
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What do you think spy satellites do?
What do YOU think they do? There aren’t many geosynchronous spy satellites.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:53 am to auwaterfowler
Strap a bomb to it and send it back!!
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