Another gender reveal gone wrong.

Over Montana? Did it skip all the other states or sneak in over Canada?

I just looked up what's in Montana.

Turns out that's where Malmstrom Air Force Base is, where Intercontinental Ballistic Missile silos are based. So... yeah.

>Officials say balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace for several days

Currently over Montana..

Literally the first sentence below the title.

That and Montana has a few launch sites with Minuteman III missiles, which is a nuclear missile 20 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. We have 400 of those all over the midwest.

>I just looked up what's in Montana.

You looked it up? You could have just made it to the fourth sentence in the article.

The latter, it came in over Canada apparently

AP- US government to issue statement denying the existence of the balloon, instead stating it was aliens seen slowly hovering over US airspace.

Why fly a balloon over a country when redditors can simply find out where all the nukes are and what types by a simple Google search

China spends $200 on a weather balloon. Talks about "Spy balloon" on monitored chats. USA spends $2 billion following the balloon and coming up with contingency plans for balloons and having a balloon monitoring crew 24x7 flying around.

China wins. Paranoia kills.

lmao, i don't think many people are going to click on an article from some sketchy cbc.ca site

😂

There are some people that think this might have been the strategy behind the 1947 Roswell incident. People think an unidentified Soviet object was shot onto us soil to incite panic about aliens.

But not exact locations and facilities built around them.

>from some sketchy cbc.ca site

What is sketchy about cbc.ca?

Or aliens have been hanging out for 75 years just watching us, remaining mostly out of sight until good cameras, then really staying out of sight, like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.

I bet on the aliens.

Exactly

oh yeah, shit right on us, because grandpa joe is too scared to anger the communists. what a piece of work.

They rather see it for themselves. Remember the chinese government only trusts themselves. Not even their own people.

Well since its in Montana. And since biden said they weren't going to do anything about. He never said that we should do anything about it.
50pts if you get it in the ballsack.

Ewwww, blow it back over there!

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After the U2 incident, the major powers came to a gentleman's agreement that they don't shoot down our stuff, we don't shoot down theirs. China has not held to the agreement very well (or successfully, they fired on our SR-71's but never got a hit) but we likely don't want to start that whole mess again.

Considering the number of spy satellites China has over the US at any given time, this strikes me more as a psyop or a unrelated project that went off track than specifically a spy balloon.

What's the big deal? We both have spy satellites that take pictures over each others countries every day and they can take pictures of anything they want. This balloon one flies where the wind takes it.

How did it get to Canada? Did they launch it out of Edmonton? So China brought a ballon from China and blew it up in Canada then flew it down to Montana?

Airspace.....

Did it float over other states? They don't mention that, they don't mention where it's been. This is total bullshit. I hope we go to war over a fucking ballon. USA USA

Well let it blow else where. This is not our monkey and not our circus. It can float over bases for all I care, but it needs to keep us out of it.

Grandpa Joe isn’t scared. Just realizes you have to pick your fights. Not like the orange retiree in Florida.

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Montana is a wonderful state, sure it is occupied by the Proud Boys Gay Posse but it is wonderful country.

I can let the army borrow my sling shot

>where all the nukes are

The best ones are on subs though. Good luck tracking those on wikipedia. Nukes are awesome though. Like the tridents can hold 16 warheads each and we signed a treaty with Russia to cut that down to like 2/3 the capacity. However, I don't think those treaties include things like duds and counter measures. Nuclear holocaust is almost guaranteed if we get into nuke battles.

Idk there are some crafty Canadian broadcasters /s

It's a Jewish balloon laser, ffs.

If they just pop it, the falling debris could injure civilians on the ground

If they just pop it, the falling debris could injure civilians on the ground

KAL007 would like a word. 1983, 269 fatalities, Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15.

How do they even know it is Chinese, tbh

In one of, if not the, lowest population density states. I'm confident there is someone who can figure out how to get it down while keeping injury risks at or very near 0%

Or it could just be a science balloon. Unless they're launching these things en masse, they're gonna learn like that japanese did in WWII that trusting wind patterns isn't the most effective thing

With that mindset we should declare the Triple Alliance the winner of WWI since they killed more Entente forces.

It’s not about how much is spent but how much you have to spend.

Good point!

Satellite data on Google maps is always outdated. Montana has missile silos and rival countries sometimes want to monitor new developments up close. Idk what the balloon is exactly for, but to say any surveillance is useless is wrong.

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No. I’m just responding to what you said. If Google maps is irrelevant to you, then why’d you bring it up?

But also, satellites are really really high up so they can only see so close to the ground without the resolution getting blurry. China’s tech is outdated compared to ours too. I’m just theorizing what close up surveillance could accomplish. Not assuming what is going on. We don’t know what the balloon has been doing. But it’s out there for some reason.

To me if you violate a countries sovereign airspace you should expect to be shot at. That goes for all sides.

It's just one Chinese dude in a hot-air balloon with a pair of binoculars. Let him think he's helping...

lmao. might as well be seperated lol

Well that deflated my expectations

Great response! Loved it.

Remember that time when aliens used monitoring satellites but hid them inside people's butts?

USA has 27% more to spend than China. So we're ahead. Its not the kind of lead you kick back and waste money with.

I saw a documentary about that with a victim named something like Cartman.

I do. S1 E1 of South Park.

Was it S1 E1 of South park?

It was indeed

Would the balloon just rip apart if it got punctured or could they have punctured the balloon and let it slowly deflate with smaller caliber guns?

There was much more to KAL007 than just a spy plane would have been.

The image shown matches a scientific device quite well, especially the balloon itself is typical US Meteorological Service. The path it's taken has me thinking it may have originated in Alaska, where the USMS has a major facility. Could also be Canadian, but I'm not familiar with their programs.

The U2 incident nearly started WW3, so they decided to temper that a bit. Any lower level incursion does get an intercept, though usually along the lines of "yes we see you". We played a lot of cat and mouse games with the Soviets over the Bering Sea. :)

Lee Scoresby is my favorite aeronaut

Sure and the Suez Crisis almost started WW3. The Cuban Missile Crisis almost started WW3. Solar flares almost started WW3. I mean from the 60s on almost farting would cause WW3. So I don’t think they can be the barometer for disregarding borders.

Biden has been under Chinas thumb for quite a while now. His family is compromised by the Chinese government. So obviously he wont shoot it down. They own the Bidens, he would never go against them.

Why?