New York Times/DNYUZ: Three objects shot down after Chinese spy balloon may be benign, White House says
WASHINGTON — A top White House official said three unidentified flying objects shot down in the past several days might turn out to be harmless commercial or research efforts that posed no real threat to the United States.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said investigators had not yet found any evidence that the three objects were connected to China’s program of balloon surveillance similar to the balloon shot down over South Carolina’s coast this month.
But he cautioned that officials had not yet been able to find and collect the debris from the three objects after they were shot down, and that a different conclusion could be reached if the debris was found and analyzed.
Mr. Kirby said that military and intelligence officials had also found nothing to suggest that the three objects were part of an intelligence collection effort by another country.
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Update #1: Three objects shot down after Chinese spy balloon may be benign, White House says (The Guardian)
Update #2: In Sudden Narrative Shift, Pentagon Admits Mystery Objects 'Probably' Private Craft Not Tied To Spying (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: WNU posted on the probability that these were domestic weather balloons a few days .... Was The Unindentified Object The U.S. Shot Down Over Alaska Yesterday Just A Failed U.S. Weather Balloon? (February 11, 2023).
And it gets better. According to some reports the first Chinese "spy balloon" may not have been intended to fly over the US in the first place .... Chinese Spy Balloon May Not have Been Intended to Fly Over Continental U.S., Report Says (NRO).
12 comments:
Zero surprises. 1,800 weather balloons are put up every single day.
May not have been intended and ...?
I bet the Chinese took the opportunity to spy, while the balloon crossed the whole lower 48 whether they intentionally set about this or not, when they initially released the a balloon.
Best case hostile scenario, is they intended to skirt the borders and spy.
The absolute best case is that it was for academic research plus mapping just like everyone is mapping the sea floor. That information can be militarized.
You would think people working for the ICAO would get off their diffs and make rules for weather balloons. They might hit a passenger jet. It has to be worse than a bird strike, when you hit a balloon.
I don't believe the Chinese govt.
Downplaying and distractions, all it is. Wasn’t just a Biden blunder but a military one as well. All trying to save face now
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grow up
you find something you can not identify shortly after a Chinese spy balloon...and you dismiss it as a blunder?
no. you knock it down and find out what it is ...only a fool would dismiss the unknown in such instances. Dumping your wisdom (?) is not a contribution to mature discourse.
The simple reason behind uptick in finding flying objects
How timely. And pathetic. Perhaps LESS digital this and electronic that would cause less embaressment[sp], if there is any. Not to mention potential missteps with a deadly outcome.
Well...I can dream, can't I?
NORAD could see these object all the time according to some. They seem to be correct. What has been said is they took the filters off. Or at least lowered the settings.
It also appears they log all their radar sweeps so they can go back in time as much as 3 oir4 years.
Where they adjusted the filters, so there is not an alarm more often reminds a person a bit of an immune system.
The filter and the storage items/stories need to be watched for follow up to see if it is true or not.
Roger maybe on to something. Supposedly the Pantsir S1 is not as good as the Soviet era Tor-M2U system. There is trouble in the Rasputin Paradise. Military leaders or acquisition people must have their thumbs on the scale. HTF does that happen?
pot kettle
This whole story stinks. I have never understood why the air force knowing there's unknowns in the sky, but never curious enough to conduct a proper investigation, for over 20 years?
Something is off.
$400k to shoot down some kid’s escaped birthday balloon? That’s a big hammer for a small ant.
Distraction operation. I've sat on thousands of briefings & Kirbys briefings didn't make sense. He mentioned balloons then backtracked & said unknown objects, implying UFOs. He didn't mention the possibility that the Russians as being responsible for the obhects. If they were UFOs, the US government would never have mentioned them. While everyone is looking over here for a week & speculating, something big is going on over there. Russian offensive? Imminent Ukraine collapse & defeat? Ohio train disaster? Or something else? Keep ducking.
look Ma! something of interest and no name calling of That Other Party or comments we do not like.
Satellite Images Reveal Chinese Balloon Bases
Yawn - yes, I have said this many times on this forum in the last week! What a joke of an issue this has become. Adults acting like kids.
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