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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
You all are worried about this. I have to ask you all, how many of you have cameras inside and out of your house that you can keep track of your property while being away from it?

Well don’t you think China wants to do the same with their properties? Thousands of acres, meat packing plants, Houses in Delaware.

Brilliant post.

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That seems to be just about right.

It's the start of a massive...well, something!

Pentagon says another Chinese spy balloon is traveling over Latin America

Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said 'it is another Chinese surveillance balloon'.

"We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America," Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson, told Fox News Friday night. "We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon."

Fox News

All your Minutemaid Base are belong to us!

The chair is against the wall.

Fu Manchu has a long mustache.

Oh, it's dark up here.

OK, good night, America! I see you tomorrow!

Actually, I see you now.

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You should close your robe.

Time to break out the EM-50.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Man this story sound familiar. Real or maybe from a movie?

Perhaps you are recalling Japanese actions during WWII, when they sent balloons that reached the western half of the United States.

They sent balloons carrying containers filled with millions upon millons of fleas infected with bubonic plague (or anthrax, I can't recall).

They also managed to kill a half dozen American civilians by dropping a bomb from one of these balloons.

The Japanese balloons that reached the US carried incendiaries.

One of those was found to have gotten as far as Farmington Michigan, on the west side of the city. Landed in a garden of a house on Gill Road.

I can’t post a direct How the Japanese bombed Michigan during World War II
November marks the 75th anniversary of a mostly unknown chapter of WWII — an attack on the U.S. with bomb-laden balloons, two of which landed in Michigan.

Keith Matheny
Detroit Free Press
Published 9:00 AM EST Nov. 14, 2019 Updated 9:10 AM EST Dec. 15, 2019 link to the story but you can probably find it (damn iPad!)

How the Japanese bombed Michigan during World War II
November marks the 75th anniversary of a mostly unknown chapter of WWII — an attack on the U.S. with bomb-laden balloons, two of which landed in Michigan.

Keith Matheny
Detroit Free Press
Published 9:00 AM EST Nov. 14, 2019 Updated 9:10 AM EST Dec. 15, 2019

One would think a state governor would have the authority to activate his or her National Guard and send fighters up to shoot the thing down, but so far none have done it.

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Originally posted by shovelhead:

One of those was found to have gotten as far as Farmington Michigan, on the west side of the city. Landed in a garden of a house on Gill Road.

I can’t post a direct How the Japanese bombed Michigan during World War II

Here is a link https://www.freep.com/in-depth...balloons/4111349002/

OMG!!! I am Weather Balloon has me laughing to tears. Bravo!

"No Gopher, just flashlight".

Late to this thread and unable to read the whole of it.

Just learned there’s another balloon somewhere over South America.

Why don’t have this second one suffer a “catastrophic accident “ and let’s find out what it is made of?

I won’t tell, and i trust you guys won’t tell either. Just between us, right?

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It’s been a while since I made a comment based on pure speculation, so here’s another:

How many military operations have been preceded by numerous overflights, feints, movements, exercises, etc., that didn’t immediately lead to anything, only to be followed up with one that did? Will we (and others) become accustomed to seeing these things floating over head all the time, and then why? (You saw it here first. )

As a serious question, though, how does anyone control a free balloon? Height, yes; direction, how? Some gross changes are possible by how it sits in different wind patterns, but that’s pretty iffy and it can’t fly against the wind.

Seems to me that these are likely meteorological surveillance balloons.

Flying directly over the middle of the U.S. gathering information on weather, the earths magnetic field and other such information to calculate the best altitude and strength for nuclear blast to generate desired EMP effect.

I lean towards thinking this is not about spying on military bases and missile silos.
Shoot it down and the Chinese will say yep, just like we said a meteorological balloon.

Perhaps mutual assured destruction is not the desire of the Chinese Communist Party.
Perhaps, they would rather retain useful land to take over.

If a nuclear bomb explodes near the ground the bomb irradiates the surrounding dirt creating a large amount of fallout.

On the other hand, if a nuclear bomb is detonated a reasonable distance above ground, the fallout is greatly decreased, and the blast radius is increased.

In the case of an extremely high altitude detonation, damage to structures is minimal, however, an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) is created, which may damage unprotected electronic equipment. The strength of the pulse depends on the earth's magnetic field in the area.

Balloons are likely for research on altitude and strength calculations, not traditional spying surveillance.

These balloons should have never been allowed to flay over our country.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
Seems to me that these are likely meteorological surveillance balloons.

That makes more sense than all the other speculation I’ve seen.
Directed or useful ground surveillance with a free balloon—? Someone ’splain that to me?

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"The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed Friday. "Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course."

So, China, exactly where was it supposed to go? Please, tell us.

Where was its launch point?

LAZER. God Bless