The FAA stopped air traffic at three airports across the Carolinas for U.S. fighter jets to take down the Chinese spy balloon that was making its way across American air space over the past several days. The balloon debris is now in the Atlantic ocean where the U.S. military will attempt to retrieve it.
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#SpyBalloon #China #USMilitary
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Keep your garbage & covid in China
Satelloon
Anyone capture it on the s 23 Ultra 100 x zoom? Lol.
Info was being processed by China continually so shooting it down was expected by them
It shoulda been shot down before it entered our country!
$381000 vs $2300 😁😂
can see it now, Lol, the Chinese gov. sitting around saying "hey should we use a satellite or a drone shaped like a hot-pocket or something else super advanced? dude raises his hand, how about a birthday balloon instead?" I'm floored. Lolol this can't be real. Lol 2023, toilets flush themselves, "let's us a 🎈" Yes
😂😂😂
finaly they cant spy on us
Send some balloons towards Chinese territory and see bro.
LOL, anyone who believes this is a "spy balloon" is a gullible stooge. Someone showed the receipts that the Chinese had given a heads up about this balloon going astray, but of course our corrupt establishment and oligarch-controlled media want to pretend that "bad China" – which is super high tech – spies via frigging BALLOONS.
The propaganda we are told to make us hate/fear China and Russia is part of the multipronged US sabotage of the BRICS coalition; BRICS countries help each other and help others countries escape the clutches of US corruption, plundering and loansharking. Wake up, people!!
That was from the aliens not Chiba
Took 3 shots to hit a stable target.
I do not believe shooting it down would be a good start. Knowing that the chinese invented the recent covid virus and several variants to go with it I can only imagine that they would load up a balloon with a lot of uncut vials with large doses of a biological weapon and send it here for our goverment to shoot it down and finish us off.
Allowing the balloon to cross the entire nation is treason. Death penalty for Gen Milley and Joe Biden
Biden could have handled this better by coming out on Wednesday and saying: "We are watching the Chinese spy balloon currently over Montana closely. Shooting it down now would be imprudent as the failing debris could injure people, property, and prairie dogs. We will pop they balloon as soon as it is safe to do so."
Only in South Carolina ☠️
I wonder why they didn't shoot it down while it was still approaching the west coast. There's territorial waters on that side of the continent too.
The US cry foul when a weather balloon strayed into US airspace and make a furore out of it. They destroy the weather balloon with a showy outward display with great publicity and great fanfare.
Is the weather balloon more lethal and dangerous than the spy plane that the US has been sending to spy on other countries all over the world?!?!
With satellite technology, there is no need to used balloon for spying in these present age.
The US used balloon in the 1960’s and 1970’s to spy on Russia and China and claimed that it was a weather balloon.
The US is promoting this incident as a national security threats when the US itself has been causing all kind of mischief by sending spy plane to spy on other countries all over the world.
The US has been sending spy plane into Soviet Union and broke the law with complete impunity. An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union in 1960.
China expressed regret that China weather balloon that is used for civilian meteorological and other scientific purposes had strayed into US airspace after being blown off course.
Ms Jean-Pierre said the US administration was aware of China’s statement but insisted that it is a clear violation of US sovereignty as well as international law. It is unacceptable this occurred.
It is just a weather balloon that has blown off course and the US is using it as a propaganda war insisting it as a surveillance balloon
The US is making a beef out of it to make a political hay out of the incident.
The US has for years has using their surveillance plane spying on China by infringing into China territory and projecting it onto China that it is a surveillance balloon.
The US is getting away with murder and continue to encroach on other countries territory with bad intention.
There are numerous incident the US violated China airspace and get away with impunity because China is not able to track US spy plane from infringing on its territory throughout the year.
Only on one occasion where China happened to find evidence on the US spying activity when the US was caught red-handed with the forced landing of the US spy plane after an air collision with the China plane resulting in the death of a Chinese pilot.
On April 1, 2001, the US Navy EP-3E intelligence-gathering aircraft on a spy mission inside China airspace hit a Chinese J-8II fighter in mid-air, killing the Chinese pilot and blatantly make a force landing without permission on the Chinese military base at Lingshui airfield on the Chinese island of Hainan.
China was force to return the US Navy EP-3E with dire consequence of punishment from the US because the Top Secret American intelligence and intel-gathering equipment was sitting in Chinese hands.
The EP-3E Airborne Reconnaissance Integrated Electronic System, also known as ARIES, aircraft is used for signals intelligence gathering.
Such naked aggression by the US endanger the lives of Chinese pilot.
The US is making a great commotion over a weather balloon incident when the US itself committed a far more frequent violation on other countries all over the world. Talk about a pot calling the kettle black!
Great job, Biden. You let it go all the way across Alaska and North America. And you finally shot it down after it got plenty of info before being destroyed.
Department of defense: good night Mr president, there is a spy balloon from Arasaka is heading to Montana. Can you let us know your order sir 🫡?
Sleep joe: Do you know what time it is 🤤😪?
Department of defense: 1:30AM sir 🤔?
Sleepy joe: I’m on vacation. Call me back on Wednesday son of b*th?
That is how sleepy joe runs the us government. No surprise ok
Sidewinders cost between $600,000 to $1.2 million … it was a balloon🎈 ferchrissake. There must be cheaper ways to deflate it than a sidewinder!
recovery of a million pieces , be like hitting a cement floor when it came down
It probably has a virus in it !!!
NBC you're part of the lame media who influenced people to vote for this clown!
It shouldn't have been Republicans only, it should have been ALL the leaders!
Should have shot this shot down as soon as it entered the US airspace! assuming no one was in it. Cannot wait for days and allowed it to make its way almost across the US.
Looks like bio attack.
Everyone was in such a rush to shoot it down. No question to what’s inside (helium or hydrogen) or toxic substances endangering people on the ground. Let ‘em shoot it down over your house…
Now for that Russian ship….