So we just going to watch this balloon go over the ENTIRE US?

a reply to: 38181

It's more like seeing a balloon fly past your ring doorbell and then having a rant at the police why they aren't arresting it.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Oh yes.... the very covert balloon approach.

The spying equivalent of cutting eye holes in a newspaper and sitting opposite you.

Your article couldn't have been more correct with this statement;

With the advent of the first spy satellites, balloons appeared to become obsolete

But then I doubt you actually read past the bits that re-inforced your own fantasies.

More balloons coming before the upper winds change in the late Spring.

Amateur spotters will once again alert us and embarrass the Biden admin.

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: Thrumbo
a reply to: JAGStorm

New headline I saw is that Biden said "We're going to take care of it" when asked about this today.

Maybe they're waiting for it to go out to sea before shooting it down. That way, he can look like he did do something about it anyway after the military said not to shoot it down.

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Yes, they are waiting for it to go out over the sea. That way they can recover the spy hardware on the balloon and reverse engineer it to figure out how much information China got out of this without endangering civilians on the ground. If they had shot it down over land the way Don Jr. and MJT wanted, that would have destroyed any information value it had and would have endangered citizens on the ground.

Do you mean the same thing Biden said when he initially heard of the situation?

I got a question if we have been following it since before it floated into sparsely populated Northern Canada why not shoot it done before it gets a look-see of anything of value?

Why didnt Trudeau shoot it down?

a reply to: carewemust

Why didn't Trump?