Experts in national security and aerospace said the craft appears to share characteristics with high-altitude balloons used by developed countries around the world for weather forecasting, telecommunications and scientific research.
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In a briefing Thursday, a senior defense official declined to discuss what the Pentagon knows about the technology onboard the Chinese balloon, but said the payload wouldn’t offer much in the way of surveillance that China couldn’t collect through spy satellites.
For me, with everything we know, which is that China had a visit from the US Secretary of State planned for the next day, China's public statements that they want to work with the US and de-escalate, the US saying they've been tracking the balloon for a while now but choosing to announce on the eve of Blinken's visit but not earlier, indicates for whatever reason, the US changed their mind about de-escalation of the tensions between the two countries, which sucks for the world.
Maybe they can let the balloon participate in Super Bowl activities though!
For me, with everything we know, which is that China had a visit from the US Secretary of State planned for the next day, China's public statements that they want to work with the US and de-escalate, the US saying they've been tracking the balloon for a while now but choosing to announce on the eve of Blinken's visit but not earlier, indicates for whatever reason, the US changed their mind about de-escalation of the tensions between the two countries, which sucks for the world.
Maybe they can let the balloon participate in Super Bowl activities though!
They've gotta have a super low opinion of the intelligence of their population if they think the BS 'Weather Balloon' cop-out is going to work...again.
The people know about the conspiracy! They're not falling for those shenanigans again!
We know its Aliens!!
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For me, with everything we know, which is that China had a visit from the US Secretary of State planned for the next day, China's public statements that they want to work with the US and de-escalate, the US saying they've been tracking the balloon for a while now but choosing to announce on the eve of Blinken's visit but not earlier, indicates for whatever reason, the US changed their mind about de-escalation of the tensions between the two countries, which sucks for the world.
Maybe they can let the balloon participate in Super Bowl activities though!
China seems awfully pissed off over a weather balloon
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China responded that it reserved the right to “take further actions” and criticized the U.S. for “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.”
In its statement Sunday, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “China will resolutely uphold the relevant company’s legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time reserving the right to take further actions in response.”
China seems awfully pissed off over a weather balloon
In other news, the National Weather Service announces that they've outsourced some of their weather pattern data collection services to a Chinese company, but due to some unforeseen circumstances weather analytics data related to the Atlantic Seaboard are temporarily delayed.
More news at 11.
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Our house was shaking with a bunch of military helicopters flying over in that direction a couple hours before this happened. I guess they're making a pretty large effort to recover it.
"Alright Frank, your mission today is to get to 60,000 feet in your F22 and use a preposterously expensive Sidewinder missile to take down a large, incredibly dangerous, slow-moving, very deadly, mostly inflated object."
"Uh...is that a wicker basket hanging underneath the target?"
"Fox Two! FIRE!"
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If it was just an innocent weather balloon, the proper thing to do would have been to alert Canada and the U.S. that it went astray and that it was about to enter our airspaces.
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They couldn’t have been all that concerned. They let it fly all the way across the country before they shot it down. If that was a concerning aircraft it would’ve been taken down before it was in the media at all.
