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Beijing BUSTED! US intelligence confirms Chinese spy balloon WAS part of global surveillance operation to collect information on military sites across the world
2023-02-09
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Biden officials reportedly detected suspected Chinese surveillance balloons in 12 different countries across five continents before the recent incident

  • The latest balloon's slow track over the US gave officials unique time to study it

  • The three detected under Trump were called 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
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Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Bobby--what I read was that they started looking more carefully at old satellite photos and noticing things that had gotten missed before.
Salt to taste.
Posted by: James   2023-02-09 22:40  

#10  Drum roll please, no shit.
Posted by: Woodrow   2023-02-09 18:30  

#9  Better go outside and make sure.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-02-09 16:52  

#8  Coming up soon: US intelligence confirms that sun rose in the east this morning.
Posted by: Tom   2023-02-09 16:13  

#7  Bob would like us to drown 3 million innocent people as a reprisal against a regime that considers its citizens to be cannon fodder. Wiping out the dam would likely tick off Xi because his family owns the associated power generating facility. We should definitely do something about the CCP short of mass murder. Perhaps, we should start by removing all of our compromised politicians, generals and bureaucrats.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-09 12:41  

#6  I just finished reading Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires.

J. Edgar Hoover spent decades insisting that the Mafia did not exist. He wasn't the only gummint official who took that stance even after the evidence was overwhelming.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-09 11:20  

#5  Sure sounds a lot like, "We knew about them, just didn't tell anyone."

Or just making it up.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-02-09 11:13  

#4  ^ CSI Stratosphere
Posted by: Frank G   2023-02-09 10:59  

#3  "detected suspected" balloons includes the ones Trump didn't know about?

Maybe someone here could 'splain how balloons are detected by 'forensics'.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-02-09 10:29  

#2  When are we going to do something about China? They're going to keep fucking with us until we hit them, and hard. The Three Gorges Dam is awfully vulnerable to a stealth bomber attack and they'll be dealing with the aftermath for decades.
Posted by: Fat Bob Thrart2867   2023-02-09 10:05  

#1  Title should read:

US Intelligence 'reluctantly' confirms.....



Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-09 03:41  

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