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When I heard on the news last night that it was going to be above less inhabited lands, I figured its time in the air was limited. Pretty brazen for China to do that but not surprised.
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I don’t know why it wasn’t shot down when it entered us air space. They say it had a large payload. That doesn’t make sense. Maybe it was dropping small packets off every so often.
Tell me why it had a large payload please.
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I heard a report that there were at least 4 more of these floating around the world. The conspiracy theorists are already wondering if they were designed to spread biological contaminants or something
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Coming from CNN, and assuming it is true...why wasn't it shot down when it flew over Canada? Norad confirmed that fact... 
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Balloon over Canada ok. Ballon over USA no good.
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That's what I'm wanting to know-sheesh!
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I heard a report that there were at least 4 more of these floating around the world. The conspiracy theorists are already wondering if they were designed to spread biological contaminants or something
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I heard it was a delivery drone for a Beijing noodle house that went off track. This , gentlemen is why they have the 20 minutes or it’s free rule in place .
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I heard a report that there were at least 4 more of these floating around the world. The conspiracy theorists are already wondering if they were designed to spread biological contaminants or something
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Would be a first class way to determine air flow patterns for biological warfare.  Probably just a weather balloon that went astray, if they recover it, likely some information to be gained.
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China has satellites why would they use a balloon for spying?
I'm guessing a scientific balloon of some sort
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I don’t know why it wasn’t shot down when it entered us air space. They say it had a large payload. That doesn’t make sense. Maybe it was dropping small packets off every so often.
Tell me why it had a large payload please.
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I guess even espionage has gone green. 
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Surprised it took this long but Im also skeptical. I don't believe any of the Canadian, US, or Chinese governments. Political theatre.
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Surprised it took this long but Im also skeptical. I don't believe any of the Canadian, US, or Chinese governments. Political theatre.
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We all know why Trudeau didn't order it shot down... he's buddies with China... remember the Chinese police stations?
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We all know why Trudeau didn't order it shot down... he's buddies with China... remember the Chinese police stations?
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Or maybe because we can't shoot it down with the only aircraft in our fleet: Grounded air Canada planes lmao
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^ Didn’t they only notice it when it was already over the United States?
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PS the only reason this made the news was because a newspaper journalist spotted this thing in Montana and started asking questions
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^ Didn’t they only notice it when it was already over the United States?
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I think this thing was spotted before it hit NORAD's defensive parameter off the coast of Alaska (as it crossed in there and down through Canada) and was out in the Pacific somewhere long before it flew over any US or Canadian territory.
Either way, I think they should have blasted (and recovered it) long before it got into the continental US - there are plenty of safe places in Alaska and over BC where they could have dropped it. Then again, maybe they said nothing to study what this stunt was all about before announcing it to the public.
Who knows. Such a strange thing to do. Seems to me it would be obvious this would be viewed as a provocation at the very least. Flying over another countries sovereign territory is clearly offside.
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Apparently, they have time for that
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Guess this isn't the first one either. There have been 3 other reported balloons that flew over the US, that weren't shot down. Those were during the Trump administration.
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Guess this isn't the first one either. There have been 3 other reported balloons that flew over the US, that weren't shot down. Those were during the Trump administration.
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This has been proven as disinformation, or fake news as the big orange haired buffoon so accurately called it all so many years ago.
The fact that every news station in the land ran with it, though, is what's really news, or not, to anyone that's been paying even the littlest bit of attention.
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The fact that every news station in the land ran with it
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I read news daily from a few sources, almost religiously. Read today. This thread is the first I hear about the three balloons. I must be doing something wrong.
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I read news daily from a few sources, almost religiously. Read today. This thread is the first I hear about the three balloons. I must be doing something wrong.
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I'd say you're doing something right.
As the man said, watching the news, you're either uninformed or you're misinformed.
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Originally Posted by big_plinker
This has been proven as disinformation, or fake news as the big orange haired buffoon so accurately called it all so many years ago.
The fact that every news station in the land ran with it, though, is what's really news, or not, to anyone that's been paying even the littlest bit of attention.
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Well crap, I see that now. It never showed up in my news feed on twitter before and I don't follow just the MSM stuff either. They got me the buggers.
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Guess this isn't the first one either. There have been 3 other reported balloons that flew over the US, that weren't shot down. Those were during the Trump administration.
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Disinformation that has been debunked at many levels. China Joe makes up his own reality every day. Next thing you will hear on CNN is that China Joe personally flew an F15 and shot down the balloon all by himself.
All this drama does detract from his son Hunters problems, the border chaos, energy shortage, food shortage, his memory shortage, etc. China has enough info on the Biden family to do whatever they want whenever they want. US is now a laughing stock in the world.
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