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Has anyone analyzed the balloon flight path for suspected target images?
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:11 am
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:11 am
Tracking weather patterns, solar farms, produce farms? There’s gotta be a conspiracy theorist who has suspected a pattern of there path
Allegedly
Allegedly
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Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:13 am to Tshiz
Yes
China is asshoe
China is asshoe
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:14 am to Tshiz
Starting in Alaska for early warning and then they went directly over one of our ICBM fields. I would imagine that was target #1.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:19 am to Tshiz
This is all I’ve seen—nothing that indicates locations of specific farms.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:25 am to Tshiz
Isn't all this available to view via Google Earth?
This may also be naïve of me, but aren't the general locations of our nuclear silos relatively public?
My wonder is if there was a radio scanner on board trying to pick up communications or some other dry run to test our reactions.
This may also be naïve of me, but aren't the general locations of our nuclear silos relatively public?
My wonder is if there was a radio scanner on board trying to pick up communications or some other dry run to test our reactions.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:26 am to Tshiz
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:53 am to EKG
How that thing did not get shot down over Alaska is beyond my comprehension.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:57 am to Meauxjeaux
Senator Murkowski of Alaska is currently coming unglued over that very fact right now in the hearing.
And I don’t blame her a damn bit.
She says the message sent to China was: “Alaska doesn’t matter; it isn’t until threats cross into the lower 48 do they become an issue.”
And I don’t blame her a damn bit.
She says the message sent to China was: “Alaska doesn’t matter; it isn’t until threats cross into the lower 48 do they become an issue.”
Posted on 2/9/23 at 10:01 am to swamplynx
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Isn't all this available to view via Google Earth?
This may also be naïve of me, but aren't the general locations of our nuclear silos relatively public?
Google Earth imagery has varying levels of resolution, public areas like a major metropolitan may have pretty good resolution but sensitive areas like posts, missle silos, etc are either outright blurred out or have 15 meter or worse resolution. In addition, a lot of the areas this balloon went over were rural and highly rural areas, meaning the likelyhood of anything better than 15-30 meter resolution being available unlikely. Depending on what was on the balloon, they could have been doing exactly what you said about communications, or they could have been shooting LiDAR to get highly precise 3D elevation data of the area providing a clear as day picture
This post was edited on 2/9/23 at 10:03 am
Posted on 2/9/23 at 10:02 am to Tshiz
I'm thinking NORAD may be working on this now. They were busy doing other things when it flew over.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 10:09 am to Tshiz
The latest statement from the DOD/US government is China has launched many CCP spy balloons in recent weeks to gather intelligence on other nations' wireless communications. If the DOD and illegitimate regime believe what they're saying then they should have dropped that balloon off the West coast before it ever drifted over the continental US.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 10:23 am to Tshiz
Rising and lowering the position of the balloon is one way of 'steering'. Winds at different elevations can flow at different speeds and directions. That's how a balloon can move to an area, change elevation, drift slowly for a time, then move after altering its elevation again.
Weather balloon or spy balloon, those in control of the package know this and knew what they were doing.
Weather balloon or spy balloon, those in control of the package know this and knew what they were doing.
This post was edited on 2/9/23 at 10:25 am
Posted on 2/9/23 at 11:11 am to Meauxjeaux
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How that thing did not get shot down over Alaska is beyond my comprehension.
I guess they were worried that it might fall on a grizzly bear
Posted on 2/9/23 at 11:15 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Rising and lowering the position of the balloon is one way of 'steering'.
OK, I can see this with a hot air balloon. But what about a helium balloon? They take a tank of helium?
Posted on 2/9/23 at 11:53 am to EKG
That ballon went over very sensitive and strategic military installations, including Knob Noster MO…..where Whiteman AFB is located, where the Stealth B-2 bombers are headquartered.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 12:38 pm to Bass Tiger
God damn
Posted on 2/9/23 at 12:44 pm to swamplynx
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My wonder is if there was a radio scanner on board trying to pick up communications or some other dry run to test our reactions.
It is amazing to me that so many people don't see this.
It was obviously a signals intelligence collection device and/or to probe our air defense systems. There is no other reason to observe it rather than popping it immediately.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 1:02 pm to EKG
Clearly, they wanted to see how much progress Patrick Mahomes was making with his ankle injury on the practice field. Xi is betting the farm on Philly.
**Note: this was not intended to endorse the NFL, but we can leave no stone unturned.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 2:12 pm to Tshiz
Everyone leaves out alaska. Google Ft Greely and what we do there. Flew right over it
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