Inside look at China’s fleet of high-altitude balloons



Satellite images show China’s extensive balloon program based on Hainan Island in the South China Sea, and U.S. officials say they know that is where the Chinese balloon launched before making its way across the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. believes a fleet of Chinese airships and balloons has flown over dozens of countries conducting surveillance from near space.

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42 comments

  1. Look exactly like the chinese balloon from the the picture. Chinese need to pay.

  2. Well I guess we can rule out china on those tic tac U.A.P. we saw over the Pacific Ocean. 🛸💭

  3. Wait, I thought they were just weather balloons that flew off course!!

  4. We're such hypocrites as Americans, space x got more satellite than the whole world combine that can be use as Intel for military anytime and we complaining about some few balloons.

  5. -400k $ per balloon pop

  6. Heh, heh. China always has to copy from others. So pathetic.

  7. Heh, heh. China always has to copy from others. So pathetic.

  8. Isn't that the atoll they stole and turned into a weapons depot/launch bay?

  9. I got a balloon it says the dispensarys in mass sell poison weed and it's legal since the leaders are doing the same scams they don't call it murder mass for nothing they're cracker nutjobs poisoning and robbing the rest of world

  10. Blah blah blah. The military doesn't consider them a threat. Only the greedy media does.

  11. Either it's a Chinese reconnaissance UAV or simply a hot air balloon 🤔 period.

  12. China stay out of America because we will shoot down everything you send! 👎 No China!

  13. Biden said that the balloons are not from China though

  14. They steal and copy cat everything we make and do a poor job.Crummy Commies

  15. Oh man, that’s going to bankrupt the US.

  16. So "secretive" that the "militarily sensitive" balloon production was broadcast to the entire Chinese public and 'western' reporters stationed in China. Whatever was China thinking?

  17. China: Spies on America
    also China: We don't spy on America
    USA: We aren't spying on China
    also USA: Spies on China

  18. Covid distraction ballon

  19. Time to pull out of China the rich don’t care about the USA just slave labor

  20. Manchester City just lost today an were talking about popping balloons. where are our priorities.

  21. Sad of what we've become

  22. WEATHER BALLOONS DISTRACTION, what about the
    NORDSTREAM II PIPELINE THE U$ BLEW UP?
    Why isn't MIC M$M fake news talking reporting about that?

  23. Putin Kim Xi: horsemen of the apocalypse

  24. Janis looking like a snack! 😋

  25. Umm. So we have this INFORMATION… PFT since 2015.

  26. It's interesting that saying Chinese spy ballon is ok and the China or Chinese v*rus was inappropriate….

  27. 1:03 if they are being provided to the People's Liberation Army, they cease being civilian craft.
    LYING CHINESE GOVERNMENT

  28. Everybody Spy on Everybody … All phone get recorded All emails and text get save by AI Allegedly

  29. No, that spy balloon came from Mongolia

  30. And our weather balloons fly over China. America just wants war with China so bad we will fabricate anything to start it.

  31. All the train derailments seem more important. Way to hide it.

  32. Are we sure they are not coming from Canada

  33. Now please do a special on US spies satellite and planes and how they are superior to the Chinese technology.

  34. What about the hobby Ballon shot down , it had a hiker GPS and solar panels lol !

  35. At this point I'd be more worried about our own trains derailing and poisoning half the the Country. The balloons was to take our eyes off that

  36. The new Cold War has begun.