It Is Balloon!

[DanielVogelbach]

Answer: The Biden Disinformation Team is totally lying again.

That thing should have been taken down over the Aleutians or Montana -- or Canada.

Worried about hitting someone lol...seven square miles of debris in wide-open Montana or the uninhabited Aleutians.

You're taking the bait. I linked this presentation in another thread. But, it addresses this conservative talking point directly.

https://freevoice.io/blog/2023/02/05/ch ... lloon-fun/

Sovereign "countries" are fake. Probably this balloon was launched from the USA. Lol.

[Michael K.]

OK, now I really wanna know who DV was, but I really wasn't on the political forum on ST much. Not on it a lot here either I guess.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Anyone know why they had to blow it up and create a massive debris field instead of putting some holes in the balloon to bring it down intact???

[Donn Beach]

Putting holes in it doesn't allow for enough leakage to really do much about bringing it down

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Depends on the size of the hole(s). In any case there were certainly less destructive options than what they did, i would think.

[Donn Beach]

From trying to bring a weather balloon down 25 years ago, also hard to hit, course that was hoser pilots

. Since the balloon went rogue, over 1,000 rounds were fired at it by two Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-18 fighter planes after they spotted it over Newfoundland. The balloon was finally struck by the aircraft, but instead of popping or exploding and falling to the earth, it leaked helium very slowly and remained suspended in the air.

Although the balloon was roughly the size of a 25-story building, a spokesperson for the Canadian military named Lieutenant Steve Wills told BBC that it was challenging to target it. “With something like this, which is stationary in the air when the CF-18s are flying very, very fast, it is difficult to shoot it,” Wills said

[Sibelius Hindemith]

It would have been a great opportunity to try out one of them new-fangled laser "canons".

[Coeurd’Alene J]

Do you live near Hanford

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Do you live near Hanford

No why?

[Sibelius Hindemith]

If our military doesn't have the capability to hit a balloon the size of an office tower and bring down it's payload in a way that doesn't result in a massive debris field than we should just surrender to China now.