Chinese reconnaissance balloon spotted over the United States

[spongella]

They're possibly counting the number of nudist colonies we have hihi.

 

[iMONITOR]

Some interesting details and comments on "The War Zone" from the military and various named officials regarding this situation:

China's Spy Balloon Over Montana Is Part Of A Larger, More Troubling Pattern

The Pentagon says Chinese balloons have flown over the U.S. multiple times before and other peculiar incidents point to a much wider issue.

www.thedrive.com

 

[eorange]

And probably dropping Baofengs loaded with Part 90 frequencies

This was actually done years ago by another balloon targeting hundreds Amazon warehouses nationwide.

 

[PACNWDude]

China most likely scoping out their new land purchases near ICBM sites. Keep an eye on their newly acquired prairie and farmland. Or is that Bill Gates?

 

[radionx]

The Pentagon says Chinese balloons have flown over the U.S. multiple times before and other peculiar incidents point to a much wider issue.

I dunno, but in the last few months there were quite some farms & substations going up in flames...

Officials estimate 100,000 chickens died in fire at New England farm

It's one of several such fires that have killed millions of chickens around the country over the past decade.

www.wcvb.com

substation fire - Google Search

I mean if it walks like a duck, quaks like a duck, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck...

What the duck could it be?

Sounds like a hybrid duck to me, doing some SAMBA!

Ugly Duckling - A Little Samba

And yeah, here is a special song that JUST came to my mind...man, I don't know why...
Beastie Boys - SABOTAGE

No kind of encryption is going to save you from sabotage...'cos the CALL is coming from the inside.

 

[ladn]

nudist colonies

In Montana this time of year?

 

[ladn]

As fans of the Yellowstone tv series both @Lauri-CoyoteFrostbite and I know how the Duttons would have handled this.

 

[trentbob]

As fans of the Yellowstone tv series both @Lauri-CoyoteFrostbite and I know how the Duttons would have handled this.

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Yeppers, I'm with you and Lauri, somebody might even end up with a ride to the train station.

An interesting note, last night before I went to bed I did notice that there was an E3 orbiting near Oklahoma city. I would assume that's where the balloon was.

 

[MUTNAV]

it’s at 90,000 feet I believe

Fair enough, gotta go laser route then.

Thanks
Joel

 

[MUTNAV]

There's intelligence value in retrieving the collection systems aboard the device.

I agree, but collect everything that can be collected with it operating... first.

Thanks
Joel

 

[MUTNAV]

Tracing back NOAA upper wind profiles reveals this

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621293636943052801

Any special reason it wasn't destroyed as soon as it went over mainland Canada? After getting clearance from the environmentalists to dump garbage over the wilderness?

Thanks
Joel

 

[MUTNAV]

I remember watching some military show a long while ago that showed a way to pickup downed pilots by having a pilot inflate a balloon with helium and use a cable attached to a harness on them to raise the balloon up and using a aircraft with a “V” shaped attachment on the front that would fly over and snag the pilot and lift them in the air. You could probably use a similarly equipped aircraft to do the same with the balloon.

We used to that with photo reconnaissance satellites also. When we used film in satallites...

I wonder what the QSO card could look like if we used it as a scatter medium "Balloon Scatter".

Thanks
Joel

 

[trentbob]

Any special reason it wasn't

Any special reason it wasn't destroyed as soon as it went over mainland Canada? After getting clearance from the environmentalists to dump garbage over the wilderness?

Thanks
Joel

I heard on MSM that Biden ordered it shot down but the military immediately walked that back and chose not to, citing possible damage to people on the ground. I would take all that with a grain of salt.

 

[meridiangold]

O gawd! These gender reveals are getting worse.

 

[GMB951]

Hope it comes down in my back yard, I will do a autopsy on it

 

[MUTNAV]

I heard on MSM that Biden ordered it shot down but the military immediately walked that back and chose not to, citing possible damage to people on the ground. I would take all that with a grain of salt.

It went over Alaska first, it couldn't be done then?

Thanks
Joel

 

[GlobalNorth]

I can't wait to see how the ARRL emcomm people respond.

BalloonWarn anyone?

 

[lenk911]

Wish I had a Oscar or satellite receiving installation. Be neat to try to decode its telemetry/communications signals back to CCP off it. Decrypt?

A little history, near the end of WW2, the Japanese launched bomb laden balloons over the pacific. When over USA, they would radio signal the balloon to drop its bomb payload. Our guys shot down many over Oregon and Washington but one got through all the way to Wisconsin. It never dropped its pay load and ran out of gas (helium/hydrogen) and fell to the earth.

Anybody think the balloon is carrying the latest iteration of COVID to disperse?

 

[fredva]

A little history, near the end of WW2, the Japanese launched bomb laden balloons over the pacific. When over USA, they would radio signal the balloon to drop its bomb payload. Our guys shot down many over Oregon and Washington but one got through all the way to Wisconsin. It never dropped its pay load and ran out of gas (helium/hydrogen) and fell to the earth.

Actually, at least one of those balloons caused an explosion resulting in six deaths: In 1945, a Japanese Balloon Bomb Killed Six Americans, Five of Them Children, in Oregon

 

[prcguy]

Outdoors in Montana in February???

They're possibly counting the number of nudist colonies we have hihi.