@@kareemawad35 ah yes because there's no sites redacted or blurred out on there that some enemy nation would like to have data on... you trust the oligarchs of our Corporatocracy far too much if you think they are telling you the whole story on anything. why do you think they are such proponents of censorship?
Yeah. Makes you wonder why Trump let 3 Chinese balloons fly over the US without doing anything at all. I guess he did something...he tried to cover it up.
No, You right! It should have been seen long before. That needs to be addressed.... As for not shooting it down over US soil. Great leadership. That could have been the trap.
If you were to spy on another country, would you A. Use Cyber technology. B. Train a James Bond-like spy, C. Send a visible, white, large, balloon so that everyone in the country can see it.
They literally just said they were waiting for it to go over water so the debris wouldn't hurt anyone. Whatever information it got we likely already know what it was as well.
@@TurkeySmashR problem with that explanation is that it flew over the most baren areas of the US. They could have shot it down in the boonies if they wanted to. This is a joke.
Its a balloon in the air lol, shooting it down could have dropped or released unknown junk or debris onto people or their houses yk, they just wanted to make sure they could shoot it down somewhere it wouldn’t make an unnecessary scene or disturbance to anyone
@@boocraft4985 that doesn’t guarantee it’ll land in uninhabited areas? Wind exists and stuff kinda moves when it falls so you cant make it land in a “safe area” or anything like that, people also own property, so if the US just shoots something and it lands on someone’s property it could end up more complicated
Dumb People do not think. Hi Cody. Did you ever THINK that maybe debris might hit people if you brought it down over land? That Balloon was the size of 3 School Busses. Cody...Cody..Cody...So Dumb.
@@jessikat6692 did you follow it's flight path?? Did you notice they do bomb testing in some of those locations. That's because it's safe to do those tests in those areas. We had many opportunities. Don't be so naive.
Dude, this is all propaganda, to take away hear that’s going on with Brandon the Great Goof and to make believe the US is doing something against China. You can believe it was a spy balloon all you want, while it was really a weather balloon. Chinese can spy on us using satellites and air planes. They do not need to send over a balloon that is slow and has little to no control over. Problem with the US is that people are gullible, which makes us weak. We are playing make believe with foreign enemies as much as many people are now making believe they are a girl when they are really a boy, but calling it “identity as,” instead of saying “pretending to be.” The great empire of the US will fall soon enough.
The Potato's masters in the CCP would not allow it to be shot down until it completed it's mission, it did, and it was over deep water so nobody could find the wreckage, or nobody who would tell us anything anyway.
It took this long for them to figure it out. It shouldn’t been a thought. If it was in China it wouldn’t be a debate. We are showing too much weakness to other countries
They literally said they were waiting for it to go over water so the debris wouldn't hurt anyone. We likely already know what information was gathered anyways.
You can bet that particular balloon and the equipment on it wasn't cheap, and now it's gathered some intel while testing our willingness to protect ourselves. The CCP got a 2-for-1 bargain.
Too be fair, sources say the balloon was between 60000- 65000 ft, and most common commercail aircraft top out at 55000, so it wasnt like a redneck in Cessna was going to pull up to it and hang a shotgun out the window.
Lol this was a test by the Chinese to see what our response would be. How weak do we look. Should have shot it down before it even entered our airspace over Alaska…. We have military bases there that are supposed to monitor intercontinental ballistic missiles
Military operates on risk reward. Huge risk In shooting it down little reward. The secret missiles are well hidden even to spy planes. If it would have entered a no fly zone it would have been shot down. Most of what it could have possibly captured is visible on google earth.
@@KcarlMarXs Even if it was, it was "off course" even according to the Chinese. Fine. We'll bring down your rogue balloon as a matter of protocol and return your property to you. I'm sure that could've been done in Alaska with minimal risk to anyone or anything on the ground.
Amazing how it went from China, swerves up to Alaska, then take another accidental turn down to the continental United States, and hovers over an Air Force base in the middle of BF Montana. What are the odds!!!! This was clearly an accident. Nothing to see here folks.
Your telling me, the balloon flew through the most baren empty parts of the US so we waited untill it flew all the way across the US and into the ocean to avoid the possibility of civilians getting hurt? Shoulda been shot down in the boonies. What are we doing?
Please interview more random people and their opinions. Because it’s important for us to hear a middle age couple and how they handled the situation that they had no control over. My 5 year old would be another key interview. Or just close your eyes and walk down the street until someone has an opinion. Then show us all of it. I’m just glad I wasn’t flying anywhere today.
Yo dude, I hear you on wanting to get a mix of perspectives, but what's the point of only interviewing random people on the street? It's not like they're experts on the situation or anything. Plus, asking a 5 year old for their thoughts might not give us the most insightful or informed response. And as for flying today, IDK why you're glad you didn't, flying is the future bro! Flying is where it's at, with all the new advancements in aviation, you're missing out. But hey, different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Basically waited to shoot it down until it had completed its course across the entire country & already gathered whatever intel possible 🙄. Like there wasn’t thousands of miles over alaska/Canada where civilian casualties wouldn’t have been an issue days ago
@@jjparks9263 lol I'm not the one defending this gestopo admin that's owned by china.whi thinks it's perfectly ok for a Chinese spy to casually be in our air space.
Shooting it down over land would have been irresponsible of him since it risks hurting or killing someone below. Thank God there's people around him that aren't senile to warn him of the dangers.
Well at least he wanted to shoot it down. Trump let 3 Chinese balloons fly over the US and did nothing, lol. But don't let your partisan derangement get in the way of sound judgement.
you must be paid to post these comments. for days it was over land that had zero population over it. it’s pretty clear what’s going on in the United States of China right now…
Can u imagine being that fighter pilot. Training all his life to be Top Gun. Yes Captain, we want u to shoot that balloon, that’s an order! Imagine the pressure and sweat rolling down his face, if he misses he won’t hear the end of it.
It'll give him some happy thoughts when he faces off with china's Air planes in the next war thats to follow soon. The balloon just mapped where some our bases are at, wont be the last, now they know we wont shoot till its at the atlantic, next they will see if they can get a nuke on a balloon to cross and bomb our bases.
so let it go all the way across the country, allowing it to do whatever it did and shooting it down after any damage it could do was already done... seems legit
If you shoot a missile at it, that missile is going to go through the balloon and keep on going. Better to do that when it's out over the ocean where it can just fall into the water instead of coming down in a populated area.
@@Perroden after 1 week I’m sure you’ll forget about this stupid balloon you’re using to push your party’s agenda. I swear the real democrats and republicans are dead
If any strangers Drone, UFO, Balloon, tree branch/leaf, Avocado, Orange or Apple invades our private airspace our property, it is no longer theirs... It's ours to do with as we please at, we the property owner/residents' discretion. There are no excuses.
@@MiqelDotCom you know, these sheep aren’t putting one and one together. Why do the Chinese need a weather balloon in the US? As you stated, do they not have their own technology to do so
I live in Myrtle Beach, I am also an USAF vet who has been around F-15s, SR-71, F-4 W. weasels and F-16s during missions. Why in the heck were four to six fast movers (six sonic booms) running super sonic after a balloon? One pair of booms was so bad that it felt (inside the house) like the second floor of the house was caving in. That display of stupidity was astounding! A couple 100 grand of stupidity! Anyone in intel knows that balloon was representing ZERO collection threat, zippo! The biggest threat from this ballon was it crash landing on Grandma! It's amazing to me, that it was already threat sensory inspected and if it had any active threat systems (with % power easy to sense) they would have fried the electronics or shot it down. The USA is the most photographed nation in the world and the least signal collection performed in the world by potential adversaries. All of our critical communications are (2x-3x) encrypted and secure, not even our own tech/AI can decrypt our own communications that's why other adversarial nations don't even bother (expense vs reward) and use human intel. SIGINT is best used on idiots and poorly ($ exspensive) equipped nations/groups/cells that can't afford or have knowledge/processes to ensure data security. As for topographic images, everyday satellites and commercial jets from nations around the world take photographs in differing spectrums. Furthermore, our treaties permit other nations to validate certain military faculties like nuclear missile sites. Show me yours I'll show you mine, helps keep the fear mongering in check. What a waste! But hey, I do miss the sounds of a super sonic fast mover! Right now the pilots who shot it down will forever be the butt of the jokes surely to come:)
I understand your frustration with the situation, but I think it's important to consider the bigger picture. The military needs to take every potential threat seriously, even if it turns out to be a harmless balloon. In today's world, it's better to err on the side of caution than to risk national security. Yes, the cost may seem high, but the military has access to resources and information that the general public doesn't. They may have seen something in the balloon that made them believe it was a threat, and acted accordingly. Additionally, the display of power by sending fast movers could also serve as a deterrent to potential adversaries. It shows that the military is prepared and ready to respond quickly and effectively to any threat. I agree that it may seem like a waste, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a small price to pay for the security and protection of our nation and its citizens.
These people think we're all children. A "balloon". If it wasn't so funny I'd be screaming. What Nation deploys a toy like that in this day and age anywho, regardless of it's purpose, except for a yearly festival or a competition, ie: for fun? Get it? Haha they're laughing at us . (Don't worry though the joke's on them, but in the meantime .. ). Sure, sure, it could be a trojan horse and it should have been taken out Immediately. But Someone is desperate to deflect attention away from Something. Unfortunately the laundry list of treasonous screw-ups available to focus the attention on is So huge it's going to take more than a silly circus balloon to convince us to "pay no attention to the man, (or men, gender neutral if you insist), behind the curtain".
The data collection that it was doing is stored on site and is collected upon retrieval. Now it’s either sitting in the wreckage off the coast or it’s already on its way back to China in a high speed, self propelled, submersible, torpedo kinda thing.
Oh no! The Chinese now have photos of areas who have had photos available for decades on Google Earth! They've seen our precious cows! Our sacred corn!
Well to be fair we have satellites in space taking pictures of earth "for" goggle earth everyday, im pretty sure we be taking pictures of china too so.
Balloon seems a little more subtle that our SR71 blackbird. Lol. My kid lost her balloon. I thought it was hers. Whew. Atleast I’m out of hot water now 😂
They Failed to Remind us Although they shot Down the First Balloon,what happened to the second balloon that entered our air space after that one? There talking about the first one but what about the second one? 🤔
If you ever explore Google Earth, you'd know that sensitive areas are blocked. Some countries won't even allow Google Earth to show anything beyond their borders.
There was no safe area to shoot down a balloon over that entire path. It would fall straight down, not continue in a jet stream! We obviously need more intelligent people at the front of our military. At least with a 5th grade education!
Breaking news. U.S. shot down a balloon believed to be carrying the Wizard whom had drifted from Oz decades ago. We caught up with the Tin man for a comment. His response was "the heart I was given is now broken so I'm heading back to Oz for a new one"
After 45 days, now we take it down. I’m pretty sure that balloon completed its mission weeks ago.
Yes, to observe and record the Atmosphere lol
He is so full of sH*t…. China lover!
You ever hear of google earth?
Which means we likely probed its frequencies and already know what information it gathered before shooting it down over water, so who cares?
@@kareemawad35 ah yes because there's no sites redacted or blurred out on there that some enemy nation would like to have data on...
you trust the oligarchs of our Corporatocracy far too much if you think they are telling you the whole story on anything. why do you think they are such proponents of censorship?
it should not of been allowed to enter our airspace at all!! Just Sayin
Yeah. Makes you wonder why Trump let 3 Chinese balloons fly over the US without doing anything at all. I guess he did something...he tried to cover it up.
AIR
No, You right! It should have been seen long before. That needs to be addressed.... As for not shooting it down over US soil. Great leadership. That could have been the trap.
Yeah, but Biden is president. You voted for it. 🤷♂️
It should not have been...
If you were to spy on another country, would you A. Use Cyber technology. B. Train a James Bond-like spy, C. Send a visible, white, large, balloon so that everyone in the country can see it.
Well, option C has been proved a good way. LOL
All of the above
Jon, come on bro, you really think it’s that easy? Really?
Definitely A
TikTok
I'm sure the balloon got plenty of footage of people: not working, drunk, high, or homeless
You are funny. The question is why was the balloon allowed into the US airspace. That's dangerous.
Took them going across our country first 🤦🏼♀️
It's a weather balloon
@@KcarlMarXs No the Chinese say it’s a weather balloon
Said the same thing, utterly a failure of something
They literally just said they were waiting for it to go over water so the debris wouldn't hurt anyone. Whatever information it got we likely already know what it was as well.
@@TurkeySmashR problem with that explanation is that it flew over the most baren areas of the US. They could have shot it down in the boonies if they wanted to. This is a joke.
Yeah let it fly over the entire country before shooting it down. So dumb.
Its a balloon in the air lol, shooting it down could have dropped or released unknown junk or debris onto people or their houses yk, they just wanted to make sure they could shoot it down somewhere it wouldn’t make an unnecessary scene or disturbance to anyone
@@c4t610 fun fact. Approx 47% of the US is uninhabited
They had plenty of chances to shoot it down.
@@boocraft4985 that doesn’t guarantee it’ll land in uninhabited areas? Wind exists and stuff kinda moves when it falls so you cant make it land in a “safe area” or anything like that, people also own property, so if the US just shoots something and it lands on someone’s property it could end up more complicated
Dumb People do not think. Hi Cody.
Did you ever THINK that maybe debris might hit people if you brought it down over land? That Balloon was the size of 3 School Busses. Cody...Cody..Cody...So Dumb.
@@jessikat6692 did you follow it's flight path?? Did you notice they do bomb testing in some of those locations. That's because it's safe to do those tests in those areas. We had many opportunities. Don't be so naive.
So many military forces in that area. Thanks for dropping it like it's hot
Dude, this is all propaganda, to take away hear that’s going on with Brandon the Great Goof and to make believe the US is doing something against China. You can believe it was a spy balloon all you want, while it was really a weather balloon. Chinese can spy on us using satellites and air planes. They do not need to send over a balloon that is slow and has little to no control over. Problem with the US is that people are gullible, which makes us weak. We are playing make believe with foreign enemies as much as many people are now making believe they are a girl when they are really a boy, but calling it “identity as,” instead of saying “pretending to be.” The great empire of the US will fall soon enough.
It was Russian
I think it was
"Made in China" 🇨🇳
U.S.A. is getting weak in the knees.
Weak in the knees.
It can hardly speak.
We are only as tough as our leader is!
No i don't think so. The US flies like a butterfly but stings like a 🐝 bee.
You people really think this was somehting other than a distraction. Wow lol
The Potato's masters in the CCP would not allow it to be shot down until it completed it's mission, it did, and it was over deep water so nobody could find the wreckage, or nobody who would tell us anything anyway.
They don’t need a spy 🎈, they own TikTok, that’s what TikTok is for.
Really.
It took this long for them to figure it out. It shouldn’t been a thought. If it was in China it wouldn’t be a debate. We are showing too much weakness to other countries
Figure what out? There is no evidence or proof that it wasn't anything but a weather balloon except convenience of war-making
You can’t just shoot stuff out of the sky and not risk anything on the ground
They literally said they were waiting for it to go over water so the debris wouldn't hurt anyone. We likely already know what information was gathered anyways.
You are correct. In china it would have been shot down right away.
@@historyfrk bruh...
Sent a $216 million dollar F22 to take down a balloon, what’s more American 🇺🇸 than that 🤣🤣🤣
You can bet that particular balloon and the equipment on it wasn't cheap, and now it's gathered some intel while testing our willingness to protect ourselves. The CCP got a 2-for-1 bargain.
It would have been more American to shoot it down before it traveled from Alaska to South Carolina.
Too be fair, sources say the balloon was between 60000- 65000 ft, and most common commercail aircraft top out at 55000, so it wasnt like a redneck in Cessna was going to pull up to it and hang a shotgun out the window.
Eating Doritos?
@@Lord_Crofts They would if the balloon was carrying oil.
Lol this was a test by the Chinese to see what our response would be. How weak do we look. Should have shot it down before it even entered our airspace over Alaska…. We have military bases there that are supposed to monitor intercontinental ballistic missiles
It's a weather balloon
Military operates on risk reward. Huge risk In shooting it down little reward. The secret missiles are well hidden even to spy planes. If it would have entered a no fly zone it would have been shot down. Most of what it could have possibly captured is visible on google earth.
@@KcarlMarXs what is your proof? Explain. Don't say because that is what China said. If you are so positive on it, you have to have proof on it. So?
@@KcarlMarXs no, no, no. it wasn't a weather balloon, it was Feng Feng trying to get her Valentines day present to Eric Sowell!
@@KcarlMarXs Even if it was, it was "off course" even according to the Chinese. Fine. We'll bring down your rogue balloon as a matter of protocol and return your property to you. I'm sure that could've been done in Alaska with minimal risk to anyone or anything on the ground.
this has gotta be the worst spy balloon in the history of spy balloons
Too little too late. They already got whatever information they needed now that it was out over the ocean
I think the debris should be examined
the chinese would have shot an american balloon down day 1
Correct. No trespass is tolerated in China
Amazing how it went from China, swerves up to Alaska, then take another accidental turn down to the continental United States, and hovers over an Air Force base in the middle of BF Montana. What are the odds!!!! This was clearly an accident. Nothing to see here folks.
That's scary
Your telling me, the balloon flew through the most baren empty parts of the US so we waited untill it flew all the way across the US and into the ocean to avoid the possibility of civilians getting hurt? Shoulda been shot down in the boonies. What are we doing?
Please interview more random people and their opinions. Because it’s important for us to hear a middle age couple and how they handled the situation that they had no control over. My 5 year old would be another key interview. Or just close your eyes and walk down the street until someone has an opinion. Then show us all of it. I’m just glad I wasn’t flying anywhere today.
Correct good idea
Yo dude, I hear you on wanting to get a mix of perspectives, but what's the point of only interviewing random people on the street? It's not like they're experts on the situation or anything. Plus, asking a 5 year old for their thoughts might not give us the most insightful or informed response.
And as for flying today, IDK why you're glad you didn't, flying is the future bro! Flying is where it's at, with all the new advancements in aviation, you're missing out. But hey, different strokes for different folks, I guess.
The video is already done. If you want opinions of random people, just read all of these comments.
@@Fermifire this is sacasim...I'm not serious.
@@bjnowak so was their comment. Lol
Basically waited to shoot it down until it had completed its course across the entire country & already gathered whatever intel possible 🙄. Like there wasn’t thousands of miles over alaska/Canada where civilian casualties wouldn’t have been an issue days ago
Intel that a satellite could have gotten easier.. duh such danger🤣 duh!
Makes you wonder why Trump let 3 balloons pass over the US without doing anything. He didn't even tell the American people, but tried to cover it up.
@@randymanx2674 lots of ignorance around here spouting pure nonsense
@@Perroden exactly so you should crawl back to your hole
@@jjparks9263 lol I'm not the one defending this gestopo admin that's owned by china.whi thinks it's perfectly ok for a Chinese spy to casually be in our air space.
Why did it make it to the USA
Sarah Palin tried to shoot it down from her front porch
Um, I think because it did
Good question. How did it enter into the airspace
Once it was off the coast and already taken pictures... This is so sloppy propaganda it's stupid
Yeah, sure he wanted to shoot it down right away. We are supposed to believe this dribble!
Lying liar
Shooting it down over land would have been irresponsible of him since it risks hurting or killing someone below. Thank God there's people around him that aren't senile to warn him of the dangers.
If someone would have died had they shot it down earlier the trump lovers would have asked for Bidens head.
Well at least he wanted to shoot it down. Trump let 3 Chinese balloons fly over the US and did nothing, lol. But don't let your partisan derangement get in the way of sound judgement.
you must be paid to post these comments. for days it was over land that had zero population over it. it’s pretty clear what’s going on in the United States of China right now…
Myrtle Beach SC that's my city we back on the map.👊🏿🙏🏿
Beautiful place
Brando resign now please🙄
No. Why?
"but we live in a weird time" That's the truth!
Weird times indeed. Is there any hope?
Weird times indeed. Is there any hope?
Can u imagine being that fighter pilot. Training all his life to be Top Gun. Yes Captain, we want u to shoot that balloon, that’s an order! Imagine the pressure and sweat rolling down his face, if he misses he won’t hear the end of it.
Maybe it was all a test to see USAF readiness.
Those jets don’t miss num nuts
New cod kill streak incoming.
10 kills: weather balloon ready for deployment sir 🎈
It'll give him some happy thoughts when he faces off with china's Air planes in the next war thats to follow soon. The balloon just mapped where some our bases are at, wont be the last, now they know we wont shoot till its at the atlantic, next they will see if they can get a nuke on a balloon to cross and bomb our bases.
That balloon mission for the Top Gun DS game just got way more realistic! XD
I like that reaction coming from a government that censors Winnie the Poo
America needs to take national security seriously again.
只是一个失控的气球，不要太敏感
Shot it down AFTER it became public.. we’re so smart!
This poor excuse of a Man is the reason CHINA had the nerve..Never Would have Happened with Trump in Office..
Happened at least three times while Trump was in office.
yea after they let it map everything num nuts
so let it go all the way across the country, allowing it to do whatever it did and shooting it down after any damage it could do was already done... seems legit
If you shoot a missile at it, that missile is going to go through the balloon and keep on going. Better to do that when it's out over the ocean where it can just fall into the water instead of coming down in a populated area.
@@lizade3814 🤡👈🏻
@@lizade3814 bruh it flew over miles and miles and miles over barren lands.
@@Perroden after 1 week I’m sure you’ll forget about this stupid balloon you’re using to push your party’s agenda. I swear the real democrats and republicans are dead
@@jjparks9263 I don't need to make up something to say this gestopo admin is owned by china
🇨🇳Biden for Prisonerdent🇨🇳
It's all a distraction
If Trump was in office, that thing wouldn't have made it within 100 miles of the US coast.
Joe had to get permission from China.
Send them a bill for the bullet and clean up, they need to cut the US a check ASAP
A little late!!
Yeah, I was wondering why they didn't just shoot it down in the first place.
State governments should have
lol so they waited until it crossed the entire country?
Quick reactions can be counterproductive sometimes. You need to study a situation thoroughly before action.
Looks staged, and choreographed
If any strangers Drone, UFO, Balloon, tree branch/leaf, Avocado, Orange or Apple invades our private airspace our property, it is no longer theirs... It's ours to do with as we please at, we the property owner/residents' discretion. There are no excuses.
😂👍
Well, you can get away with all kinds of stuff if no one is looking.
Yea...after it covered the USA
Wasn't it just in Montana yesterday? Tf?
President Joe Sippy-Cup finally got approval from his staff to do his job and shoot down the fentanyl dropping baloon. WOW!!!!
"we successfully shot it down after it crossed the whole US"...
Its a FKing balloon LOL
The Chinese finally gave them permission.
no lies here
We have a embarressment of a selected President
You're right, you always do
A man that can't leave a podium without assistance!
After they mapped everything, what a successful 👏
Yeah, because they don't have Google Earth (or their own imaging satellites) in China? 🙃
@@MiqelDotCom you know, these sheep aren’t putting one and one together. Why do the Chinese need a weather balloon in the US? As you stated, do they not have their own technology to do so
Oh so it’s not a wild conspiracy theory after all
As everyone has tik tok in their phones 🤣
The way chinese spied US is really really not acceptable, too childish. It's an huge insulting.
im glad they let it go coast to coast before shooting it down.
Yeah so that it drops into the water
@@chimakalu5195 yea, god knows Montana is loaded with a massive population.
Indeed. Quick reactions can sometimes be counterproductive.
It probably sent signals back as it travels it should have been captured when it was discovered
Correct. Captured for examination.
I live in Myrtle Beach, I am also an USAF vet who has been around F-15s, SR-71, F-4 W. weasels and F-16s during missions. Why in the heck were four to six fast movers (six sonic booms) running super sonic after a balloon? One pair of booms was so bad that it felt (inside the house) like the second floor of the house was caving in. That display of stupidity was astounding! A couple 100 grand of stupidity!
Anyone in intel knows that balloon was representing ZERO collection threat, zippo! The biggest threat from this ballon was it crash landing on Grandma! It's amazing to me, that it was already threat sensory inspected and if it had any active threat systems (with % power easy to sense) they would have fried the electronics or shot it down. The USA is the most photographed nation in the world and the least signal collection performed in the world by potential adversaries. All of our critical communications are (2x-3x) encrypted and secure, not even our own tech/AI can decrypt our own communications that's why other adversarial nations don't even bother (expense vs reward) and use human intel.
SIGINT is best used on idiots and poorly ($ exspensive) equipped nations/groups/cells that can't afford or have knowledge/processes to ensure data security. As for topographic images, everyday satellites and commercial jets from nations around the world take photographs in differing spectrums. Furthermore, our treaties permit other nations to validate certain military faculties like nuclear missile sites. Show me yours I'll show you mine, helps keep the fear mongering in check.
What a waste! But hey, I do miss the sounds of a super sonic fast mover! Right now the pilots who shot it down will forever be the butt of the jokes surely to come:)
Oh no did you hear big booms? Big boom scary huh. You poor baby
I understand your frustration with the situation, but I think it's important to consider the bigger picture. The military needs to take every potential threat seriously, even if it turns out to be a harmless balloon. In today's world, it's better to err on the side of caution than to risk national security. Yes, the cost may seem high, but the military has access to resources and information that the general public doesn't. They may have seen something in the balloon that made them believe it was a threat, and acted accordingly.
Additionally, the display of power by sending fast movers could also serve as a deterrent to potential adversaries. It shows that the military is prepared and ready to respond quickly and effectively to any threat. I agree that it may seem like a waste, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a small price to pay for the security and protection of our nation and its citizens.
@@Fermifire y’all take this to serious
@@Fermifire 3 of them flew over when trump was in office.they said it was no big deal
Probably good that you got out of the air force if you don't like to hear jets. Yet you are OK with a Chinese spying on the US?
Congrats to the 5th generation fighter who was able to shoot down a balloon (WW1 tech). Hardly a top gun moment. Never the less, congrats!
Balloons were invented in the 1820s. It's Napoleon era tech. Long before WWI.
I hear planes are harder to shoot
I guess you feel you could have done that huh?
lol us is still a thousand miles better than china in terms of military
Highway into the danger zone 🎶
FJB
That old couple nearly slipped up and said we’re living in world war 3 instead of “weird times”
What about the OTHER one?
Thanks Jen
Why even bother at that point. It was allowed to cross the whole country.
These people think we're all children. A "balloon". If it wasn't so funny I'd be screaming. What Nation deploys a toy like that in this day and age anywho, regardless of it's purpose, except for a yearly festival or a competition, ie: for fun? Get it? Haha they're laughing at us . (Don't worry though the joke's on them, but in the meantime .. ). Sure, sure, it could be a trojan horse and it should have been taken out Immediately. But Someone is desperate to deflect attention away from Something. Unfortunately the laundry list of treasonous screw-ups available to focus the attention on is So huge it's going to take more than a silly circus balloon to convince us to "pay no attention to the man, (or men, gender neutral if you insist), behind the curtain".
China has shot down US spy balloons that invaded China too many times, and this time it was indeed just a weather balloon
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The data collection that it was doing is stored on site and is collected upon retrieval. Now it’s either sitting in the wreckage off the coast or it’s already on its way back to China in a high speed, self propelled, submersible, torpedo kinda thing.
They should make a top gun movie about it.
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Let's not forget all those documents old Joe had stashed. They're always trying to get us to look the other way.
Why wouldn't you want to get hold of the payload? There was nowhere over land where you could have downed it? Kind of strange, isn't it?
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A civilian aircraft??? It was a balloon
With a satellite on it
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Smells like 🐎 💩
Yea it was crafted by humans and in the air so it’s an aircraft. She didn’t say airplane…
It's a controllable airship from a foreign nation who is not our friend. Have you no clue as to what just happened?
Oh no! The Chinese now have photos of areas who have had photos available for decades on Google Earth! They've seen our precious cows! Our sacred corn!
How tf you need a jet for a ballon!???!!?!!😂😂😂
After he let it finish spying
Well to be fair we have satellites in space taking pictures of earth "for" goggle earth everyday, im pretty sure we be taking pictures of china too so.
Just dropping off the killer fungus.
That's dangerous
Balloon seems a little more subtle that our SR71 blackbird. Lol. My kid lost her balloon. I thought it was hers. Whew. Atleast I’m out of hot water now 😂
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I don't know which is dumber, this or that infamous Brittney Griner trade 🤦♂️
At least they stay consistent
Neither let it float across the country or releasig who knows what into the atmosphere... lose/lose
The funny part is that is 2023 and the best we can do is shoot it down over water. We cant even capture it.
F22 vs balloon. Kids birthday party 😂😂😂
Interesting… Why are we so sure that it’s a spy balloon? Or it’s just the media 😂
*USAF…. 🤦♂️ not aviators.*
The balloon may be delivering the 10% to Joe?
The most Successful balloon launch in history. If it only had a 7 year old Chinese boy clinging to it.
Oh so America don’t like Balloons 🎈 now smh I’m sick of this little sensitive place
They Failed to Remind us Although they shot Down the First Balloon,what happened to the second balloon that entered our air space after that one? There talking about the first one but what about the second one? 🤔
Welcome to covid 2023..pop a balloon with no effing clue what was inside.
As we follow the shiny object....meanwhile......
It's a balloon, why the sidewinder when a .22 would do?
Woah,, a baloon just died.. who give a f if a baloon is watching the US layout… everyone who travels knows how the US looks, its no secret
Almost as if it was a weather balloon
If you ever explore Google Earth, you'd know that sensitive areas are blocked. Some countries won't even allow Google Earth to show anything beyond their borders.
Oh the propaganda
Good job, Biden!
After it did it's job
There was no safe area to shoot down a balloon over that entire path. It would fall straight down, not continue in a jet stream! We obviously need more intelligent people at the front of our military. At least with a 5th grade education!
Yeah after 45 days?
It wasn't shot down 6 miles off the coast. Hell, it fell in less than 50 ft of water.
Breaking news. U.S. shot down a balloon believed to be carrying the Wizard whom had drifted from Oz decades ago. We caught up with the Tin man for a comment. His response was "the heart I was given is now broken so I'm heading back to Oz for a new one"