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Chinese Weather Balloon Real Purpose

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  1. JD Guy

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    Saw that yesterday.
     
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    My cousin's can see it right now if they go outside and look up
     
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    The chit show this thing might cause….:zip:
     
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    The most interesting part of this I found, is this isn't the first time. But it appears(?) this is the first time the public has been made aware of it.
    I'm guessing if 3 letter agencies can pull a sub up from the bottom of an ocean, they are going to grab this up.
     
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    I doubt we, the general public, will ever know the truth about it.
     
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    Especially these days!
     
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    Nothing to see here! Happens with laptops all the time.
     
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    Well, after they shot it down with a sidewinder missile fired from an F-22 Raptor, it landed in the ocean in under 50 feet of water. They are retrieving it now to see what they had for pictures they took
     
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    It shouldn’t have made it past the Aleutian Islands
     
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    So you're saying this was thee most expensive balloon pop in human history? :makeitrain"
     
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    like we think they didn't beam those pics back to the mother land already, and we hope to see whats stored there?
    We waited till it passed over everything sensitive to plug it?
    Posturing is what comes to mind, maybe a little teeny US tantrum?

    If it was a real risk (of course all played off) why not obliterate it when noticed?

    Entire story is bunk.
     
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    Agreed. Any intelligence they wanted to collect, they've already been doing for years via infiltration, subversion, cyber warfare and satellite imagery. This whole story and how the news outlets are all marching in lock-step suggests it's more of a psyop than anything.
     
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    Figured it had the Harbor Fright logo on it.
     
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