The spy balloon is currently floating at an altitude where planes don't fly but would be shot down if it posed a threat to civilian aviation.
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A Chinese spy balloon has been spotted drifting over the northern United States, and Pentagon officials have considered shooting it down, Defense Department officials said late Thursday.
The decision not to shoot down the balloon was made because of concerns that debris could injure Americans on the ground or destroy property, according to a senior Defense Department official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
The balloon was over Montana when the U.S. considered destroying it, the official said. It would be shot down if it posed a threat to civilian aviation, the official said. It is floating at an altitude where those planes do not fly.
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It’s a network intrusion gateway. It has been observed conducting network intrusions against U.S. government entities, the defense industry, law firms, information technology companies, mining companies, and non-government organizations
Criminals In Action CIA
Plausible theory. I hope we can bring it down to examine it for deadly pathogens or radioactive materials, before it is destroyed. Does it have any stored data? Aren’t we in the middle of a record breaking chicken flu outbreak?
so they are super hacking
@Kevin Jenner China exterminates all CIA people
Probably… so comforting.
I would feel safer if my government took the security of my nation just a tad bit more seriously 😳. But nah they don’t care…
Please post a video of the security breach at your trailer park and all valuable property taken by the balloon.
In 1993 was the first attempt to blow up / bring down the World Trade Center,
*In 1997 a public television station did a whole documentary on why the World Trade Center did not fall that day in 1993, this documentary showed major supports for the building, and gave engineering reports of why the building did not fall during that attempt*
. I wonder who watched and studied this documentary and whom benefitted
This Chinese Communist Craft which is circling the United States for Certain is not beneficial for this Country.,
When a nuclear bomb Falls from it maybe then they will do something.
@José Duarte Miranda dude what’s wrong with living in a mobile home is it the fact your rich and wanna take more of their money I used to live in a mobile home it’s not that bad
@george medallion Please identify verifiable evidence and authority from a published .edu or .gov source to indicate the nature of a balloon and how such a balloon is any more or less beneficial than a U.S. weather balloon, U2 spy plane, or U.S. satellite conducting surveillance of sovereign nations.
How is that thing not destroyed
Because the gov is likely lying to us
You do know Joe is President right?
Because our leaders are dirty….all of them
10 percent for the big guy. That’s how.
Maybe after a nuclear bomb drops from the want to do something about it
Literally telling China we will not do anything , send whatever you want to America
Wait till you learn about satellites Lololololol9l
That’s what they want you to believe , it’s clearly a UFO in search of the other aliens that are held in AREA 69😅
Should have taken it down… right away … that kind of hesitation is why they will keep doing it
It’s disturbing that Biden just let it go without capturing it and inspecting it.
@Bu Tu I agree they are , and have more than enough evidence to lock that dementia patient up right now ….but they don’t ….that’s my problem…if you’re not against them they’re with them …..
He probably gave them permission to do it
he is too busy eating ice cream and drooling on himself.
He was advised by military officials not to order it shot down right away and wanted it shot down when he first heard about it.
@JackReacheround explosion over Billings Montana, then later vids of balloon still in the sky ….it was only supposed to have been 1 balloon that left Montana way earlier in the day
The Chinese said that it was actually a sweatshop order that was late so they sent it express by balloon. 🤣
CCP besides destroying China…it seems they also wanna ruin all the world. How is it possible CCP dictatorship still occupying China? Chinese people should be liberated! Regime change for Chinese CCP shameless dictatorship.
Why not use small arms fire to make the spy equipment inoperable then it can float were ever it wants
Its a BALLOON ! How much damage could bringing it down cause ? Hmmmm?
It’s called Chinese moon🤣🤣Biden rhymes: I see the moon, and the moon sees me,
God bless the moon, and God bless Xi Jinpig 🐷 🐖
What part of “SHOOT IT DOWN” don’t you understand?
Caution! There may be hazardous materials in the balloon…
Montana? I can’t believe the citizens didn’t shoot it down
We’re to be very very worried American people. As we know it this may be the beginning for what was talked about years ago, Red Dawn.
Proves how easily they can send something to us soil without being detected.
I’m concerned on how other adversarial countries are seeing this,
Biden asked his fbi agents to sing Happy Birthday… and get out the cake. He thinks it’s a bday balloon
It is about 200 ft wide 30000+ feet in the air