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2023-02-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The UFO Craze is A Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis

[DanielGreenfield] 2022 was a banner year for UFO nuts. And for Chinese spying on America.

The Biden administration, following in the footsteps of the Carter and Clinton administrations, had an interest in flying saucers. Conspiracy theorists embraced the release of Pentagon reports about UFOs, but the real conspiracy was down to earth and hiding in plain sight.

Last month, the Director of National Intelligence released a report on "unidentified aerial phenomena", especially those in "restricted or sensitive airspace". The report characterized 26 reports as "Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)" and 163 as "balloon or balloon-like entities."

We didn’t have a plague of UFOs, but a massive Chinese aerial surveillance operation. We now know that Chinese spy balloons had previously targeted Navy facilities in Guam and Hawaii.

Democrats and their media had no interest in the balloons or UAS systems showing up in sensitive airspace. And the UFO nuts they allied with gleefully dismissed "weather balloons" as a military cover-up for flying saucers. But it was the UFOs that were the real cover-up.

When a Montana resident captured the first video of the Chinese spy balloon, he first thought it was a UFO. The Biden administration, which had been aware of the balloon all along, kept it secret until videos and photos by Montana residents forced their hand. For the first time, top officials had to go on record about Chinese spy balloons and to even shoot one of them down.

That was much more awkward than talking about UFOs. Advanced alien spaceships in the sky may be a silly thing to comment on, but they don’t expose their duplicity and cowardice. Letting Communist China operate surveillance devices near our air bases, planes and ships does.

What did China think it was doing? The Communist regime is gathering information on our aircraft and ships, on our pilots and personnel, in preparation for an expected war over Taiwan. They want to know as much as they can about everything from capabilities to reaction times. While we’re stumbling into a war and wandering in a scifi haze, they’re doing everything they can to get an edge on us so that when the war happens, they can win swiftly and decisively.

Beijing just assumed that our government would go on covering it up. And that was a good bet.

The Biden administration remained committed to a cover-up until the American public found out through crowdsourced social media means. That is something that Communist China could not have counted on. Or perhaps it assumed that, like Hunter Biden’s laptop, the Biden administration had the leverage with Big Tech to suppress any story. That may be technically true, but the social media censors were late to brand it as "disinformation" or "lacks context".

China’s drone, balloon and other surveillance operations have often been passed off as UFOs.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-08 06:51|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Alien expert: They don't come in peace

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-08 09:45|| 2023-02-08 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 They were unidentified until we identified them.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-08 10:57|| 2023-02-08 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 This article is so wrong I'm actually speechless. I'll comment more later.

Posted by Secret Master 2023-02-08 11:12|| 2023-02-08 11:12|| Front Page Top

The Biden administration, which had been aware of the balloon all along

Really?

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2023-02-08 11:38|| 2023-02-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't make the news, I just report it.

This article is so wrong I'm actually speechless.

Which may not be a bad thing.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-08 14:13|| 2023-02-08 14:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The prevailing theory is that UFOs are just us, but from the future. The question then is not why here, but why now?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-02-08 16:39|| 2023-02-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Everyone thinks a time traveler should go back in time and kill Hitler.

What they don't know is that there were 6 other German leaders who came to power in the 1930s who led Germany to victory, and they were all killed by time travelers. Hitler was the first to lead Germany to a loss and so was allowed to pass, as horrific as it was, it paled in comparison to the German wins.

/Herb McCoy circle

*trying to remember the name of that animated movie where a culture develops time travel, and colonizes the past. Story is told from the perspective of the inhabitants of the past; simple folk being attacked by beings from the future.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-08 16:57|| 2023-02-08 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 In many time travel sci-fi stories, going back to kill Hitler is referred to as "the rookie mistake."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-08 17:00|| 2023-02-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 And that's the paradox of time travel history changes. Short of precipitating the eschaton, you have unlimited opportunities to go back again until you get it right.

So the huge problem of it does not really exist.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-08 17:03|| 2023-02-08 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Or, as Commander Data said, "If it did happen, it will happen."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-08 17:04|| 2023-02-08 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Which may not be a bad thing.

Geeze Skid: what did I ever to do you?

(... though now I will of course confirm your worst expectations.)

I hate articles like this not just because Greenfield doesn't know what he's talking about, but also because he doesn't even care that he doesn't know what he's talking about. And he's not even reporting the facts. It's like that Atlantic reporter from a few years back who said "Isn't it funny that UFO reports stop at the American boarder?" When even a few minutes of research would have shown her that Mexico's UFO enthusiast subculture rivals that of the US and includes thousands of sightings, including by their air force. Same thing for Canada.

Out of 366 recent reports, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office's (AARO) initial analysis found that 195 objects had shown "unremarkable characteristics." The bulk of those reports — 163 — were attributed to balloons "or balloon-like entities." Another 26 were found to be various types of drones. (Those 189 objects ARE mostly Chinese and Russian stuff.) And six reports were attributed to "clutter" — a category that includes plastic bags, weather phenomena and birds.

That leaves 171 reports that AARO has found to be, well, weird. Or at least not easily explained. And unless the Chinese or Russians were running radar and holographic spoofing operations in the 1950's, Greenfield's flippant, politically motivated explanations aren't very good ones. Or very helpful.

My guess is that we aren't looking at time travelers, extraterrestrials, or 75 years of communist drones and balloons; though definitely some of it can be explained by the latter. We're looking at some kind of "breakaway" civilization that's sharing the same planet with us. And probably it's an American, post WW2 black budget research program that grew out of project paperclip, went rogue somehow, and is not really controlled by the feds at this point. It's operating very advanced tech, doing whatever it's doing, and only being cooperative with the military when it feels like it.

Which would certainly a secret worth hiding.

Posted by Secret Master 2023-02-08 19:28|| 2023-02-08 19:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Everyone thinks a time traveler should go back in time and kill Hitler.

International Association of Time Travelers (IATT) Members’ Forum: READ BULLETIN 1147, PEOPLE!

tl;dr: no Hitler-> no Third Reich-> no World War II-> no rocketry programs-> no electronics-> no computers-> no time travel.

Posted by SteveS 2023-02-08 22:22|| 2023-02-08 22:22|| Front Page Top

#13 And so there we have it.
The ball bounces before it was thrown.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-08 23:14|| 2023-02-08 23:14|| Front Page Top

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