Mike A.
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Where is the Balloon?
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Seeing Brandon ordered it to be shot down in Alaska, one can be pretty sure that it was headed to China and Brandon's boss wasn't happy with us attempting to spy on his country.
US blacklists 6 Chinese entities over balloon program
The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing's aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace. The economic restrictions announced Friday followed the Biden administration's pledge to...
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Well, if it is heading to China, then somebody let Brandon in the Drone operators hut and Brandon is skillfully piloting that balloon in a straight line there.......
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Ironically, that pattern looks a lot like Hunter's signature on his latest $50,000 painting:
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How was it lost?Remember the US's secret unmanned drone that was a solar powered spy plane they had built and were testing it in Arizona and other parts of the world last year? ZULU82. It stayed up without coming back down for 64 days. It reached altitudes of over 70,000 feet. The whole plane, including solar membranes, batteries, props and airframe only weighed 166 pounds. Wingspan of 88 feet. Don't be surprised if China hasn't developed and is currently using something like this.
The Airbus Zephyr crash down in Arizona | Exclusive
The high-altitude drone Zephyr met a sticky end, just hours before it would have broken all records for the longest-ever continuous flight.aviationa2z.com
Simply crashed, China captured it, Alien Abduction?
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Of course, our government will never tell us, but from reports on ADS-B that was tracking it, it had just performed some 60-70 knot turning maneuvers and all of the sudden, it started quickly dropping altitude....like 4500 ft/min quick. I guess they found remnants of it scattered all over the Sonoran desert in AZ. After that, mums been the word on the whole project. As far as i know, there was never another media release on what happened, what failed and if they could gorilla tape any chunks of it back together or if there was much left of it. Your tax payer dollars at work.....positively giving back to the donors....
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I think Brandon is still locked in the drone operators hut, but has fallen asleep with his forehead resting on the joystick handle and his ice cream cone has melted and dripped all into the altitude hat control......
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So now we got the original balloon shot down as it exited US airspace, 2 more shot down up north in the Yukon and Alaska, and a 4th that was spotted on radar over Montana last night but with no visiual ID... and now the Chinese are getting into the game..
China Spots Unidentified Object Flying Near Port City: Paper
China Spots Unidentified Object Flying Near Port City: Paper
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Let's just make sure we keep watching these balloons and forget all the REAL crap that's going on...
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That's exactly right.
Don't worry about classified documents potato absconded with and hid in each of his mansions. Don't worry about the Gb of incriminating data found on the Hunter's abandoned laptop. And while you're at it, don't worry about the 31.5+++ TRILLION dollars of debt we're not paying down or the massive layoffs or rampant inflation, or the billions sent to Ukraine which will eventually lead to ww3 if it goes unresolved, or the fabricated Trump/Russia hoax, I could go on but I'm tired of typing what you all already know anyhow.
That original Chinese balloon was a joke anyway, a distraction and an amusement for the Chinese government. If the Chinese don't have 30 satellites that can photograph details of Hunter's crab bites I'd be surprised.
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Latest rumors are that the US Air Force and NORAD have apparently declared War on the National Weather Service.....
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To counter this offensive, the National Weather Service is considering launching multile decoy balloons in hopes a few of the real ones can get through the F22 sidewinder dragnet to still collect wind data/ news at 11
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Update:
The NWS is now asking Ukraine for any extra weather balloons they can spare, shortcutting the process of waiting on aid from the EU and US govt (who they are apparently at war with)
The NWS is now asking Ukraine for any extra weather balloons they can spare, shortcutting the process of waiting on aid from the EU and US govt (who they are apparently at war with)
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bigredfish
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Those NWS guys are smart, theyre starting to send up balloons in different places hoping NORAD runs out of F22's to chase them and playing a game of attrition
Here We Go Again: Skies Over Lake Michigan Closed for "National Defense Purposes" (Update: NOTAM Cancelled)
Here We Go Again: Skies Over Lake Michigan Closed for "National Defense Purposes" (Update: NOTAM Cancelled)
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Nearly as busy as the skies over Davos were with private jets a couple of weeks back...radar looked like mosquitoes in a blender...but hey, they "need" to be able to fly when and where they want - it's of global importance, right? I believe I remember john "Swift Boat" kerry informing us all of that. They could use self-fueled hot-air balloons, but it's a tad too slow for them and they might find themselves on the business end of a $1.5 million sidewinder these days. 