Says Biden...

Info they got from Swalwell via Fang Fang?

Biden will take care of them balloons... as soon as they're done spying.

Mayhap all would agree that spy balloons are a bipartisan issue and we should simply shoot them down. Hell, fly 'em over some rural parts of the country and thousands would attempt it just for fun

Full Timeline as currently known to the public...

Saturday, Jan. 28
The spy balloon starts a controlled drift into American territory, entering Alaskan airspace near the Aleutian Islands. At first it appears to trackers at United States Northern Command to be just another one of China’s light probes around the edges of America’s defensive borders.

Monday, Jan. 30
By the end of the day, it has exited American territory and is over Canada,

Tuesday, Jan. 31
The balloon re-enters the United States over Idaho, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, alerts President Biden. The president asks for military options, including the immediate destruction of the aircraft. Mr. Biden also orders that no activities or sensitive unencrypted communications would be conducted in the path of the balloon.

Wednesday, Feb. 1
The balloon makes its way to the skies above Billings, Mont., home to the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, one of three U.S. Air Force bases that operate and maintain intercontinental ballistic missiles. One Pentagon official calls the balloon a blatant, and poorly concealed, effort at spying.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, calls a meeting of senior military and defense officials to review options, per Mr. Biden’s order. General Milley and Mr. Austin advise against shooting down the balloon, which has an undercarriage roughly the size of three buses, while it is over land because of the possibility of debris harming civilians and infrastructure.

U.S. officials convey to Chinese officials several times that the U.S. military might shoot down the spy balloon. Mr. Blinken tells a Chinese diplomat in Washington in the evening that the American government has the right to take any actions to protect its interests.
Thursday, Feb. 2
Republican lawmakers and politicians begin criticizing Mr. Biden, after news of the balloon became widespread, for not taking harder action against the balloon and against China, and some demand that Mr. Blinken cancel his trip.

There are reports of a second Chinese balloon traveling across Central America that is headed toward South America.

Friday, Feb. 3
The Chinese Foreign Ministry says that the machine was a civilian weather balloon that had strayed far — very far — off course and entered U.S. airspace by accident. But Mr. Blinken calls it a “clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.”

Mr. Blinken reiterates his message to Chinese officials in a call to the top Chinese foreign policy official, Wang Yi.

Later that evening, Mr. Biden is briefed about how the Air Force plans to destroy the balloon on Saturday.

Saturday, Feb. 4
The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily pauses departures and arrivals at airports in Wilmington, N.C., and in Myrtle Beach and Charleston in South Carolina, which the agency said was meant to “support the Department of Defense in a national security effort.”

One of two F-22 fighter jets from Langley Air Force Base fires a Sidewinder air-to-air missile, downing the balloon, which was flying at an altitude of between 60,000 and 65,000 feet. The military then starts recovery efforts.


Additional information was released that no only were we jamming the balloon from transmitting any data (don't know when in the timeline that started) but were also actively gathering the data that was being collected as is also normal when dealing with network hackers... we let them move around and see what they are trying to see/do before locking them out as that information can sometimes be more valuable then expelling the threat immediately.

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Providing a timeline of events as they are currently known to the public is being an apologist?

Sure bro... sure...

As Sheldon would say... BAZINGA!

And not a peep from the Main Street media during that time? Not one Deep State "actor"? I really find that so hard to believe. A club unused to bash Orangeman Baaaaad was left holstered?

Why...not even an impeachment!

Here is a question I have for all of yous guys....

Based on the common theme now being reported:



How did the Biden admin learn of these balloon transits AFTER they happened? Did China say "Brandon, we did this three times before, let us do it again."? Or did NORAD somehow discover their DVR was recording and they went back through YEARS of radar traces to find three instances of Chinese balloons in US airspace that they failed to note previously? Or did NORAD not tell DJT about the balloons when they were happening?

We all know that if DJT knew about these things, he would have said soimething about them or shot them down.

This simple admission raises more questions than it answers...

If a Bear **** in the woods and nobody see's it?

If a Tree Falls in a Forest and nobody hears it?

Who's the Democrat who let a Bear use him/her to Wipe their ass with? and heard that tree fall all in the same Moments as these three balloons passed across America and nobody seen them?

All complete BS...

As noted in the quote I provided (from https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-wants-downed-spy-aircraft-back-does-not-belong-to-us), A. the former Defense Secretary said it was BS too (wait, did he not reading his breifings, too?), AND the admin official said that the prior balloons were not "discovered" until Biden took office.

No non-commercial aircraft launched in China (Or Russia, Iran, etc.) should EVER be allowed to overfly the US. That's the entire reason we have Air Force bases in Alaska and Hawaii and early warning radars all throughout the CONUS.

This was significant enough for an F22 Raptor to launch an AIM9x Sidewinder missle at it and blow it up less than twelve miles off the coast of the U.S... Remember the last time that happened? Me either.

Hahaha, nice try... So in 2019, NORAD couldn't see it, but somehow the House was briefed about it (but not SecDef)? Or, was the house briefed about 2019 stuff now, because, despite NORAD missing multiple balloons in 2019 (WTF???) we should trust that they magically discovered their 2019 presence JUST NOW...

You can thank The current Administration for upgrading our systems so they can actually detect these now...

"White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that after Biden took office, the U.S. “enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace, we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect.”

Biden, in turn, has been faulted by some Republicans for not ordering the balloon shot down before it made its way across the U.S. Officials have said there was concern about damage to people on the ground, and Biden addressed the issue on Monday.

“Once it came over to the United States, from Canada, I told the Defense Department I wanted to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate,” Biden said. The military concluded “we should not shoot it down over land, it was not a serious threat.”"

So back during the Trump administration we were completely vulnerable to high altitude balloons and could have been completely taken out by balloons dropping air burst nukes to create EMPs and a soon as Biden came into the a White House he fixed the problem? That’s a pretty rapid development and deployment of a new defense system.

Sounds plausible.

When did Anyone in the US Government ever report it as a weather tracker? China Claimed it as such but i never saw a single US official make that claim. and if you read the timeline it was NOT ignored for days... it was tracked the entire time.

your inability to follow a simple timeline and see for yourself when who knew what and when is astounding... not to mention DOD specifically saying WHY they waited

but you keep trying... choosing to ignore the information already provided and thinking you know more then the DOD is noble work... keep pushing that false narrative good soldier.

If there had been a Trump supporter onboard they would have shot it down over the Aleutians.

Bingo!

I am Humbled and owe you ALL an immense apology.

See i just did not realize the vastness of the brain trust that is CB Forums Political section. I had no idea i had stumbled upon the greatest think tank of Military Minds, Diplomatic Experts, US Air Space Security Specialist, and Clairvoyants the world has ever seen. The vast knowledge of what is ACTUALLY happening behind the walls of the Pentagon, Whitehouse, NSA, Norad, Department of State, and Joint Chiefs office doors is astounding one this page.

I am immediately starting a petition to have the below changes tot he Joint Chiefs of Staff demanded by the American People...



JGKAMIN Will be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
ZRX Will be Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs
DrMadVibe CofS Army
DrafterX Commandant of the Marines
RiverRatRuss Chief of Navel Ops
HokeyDad Chief of the AF
Mr. Jones will be Cief of Space Ops, Cant have him land based... he may take revenge on 2 many folks we need
Stogie Chief of the National Guard since they are the Court Jesters of the US Military


Macs gets to be Prez...

I suggest you tap Kelly Anne Or Sarah H. as i don't do Alternative Facts...

So you're buying into the claims by China that it was an errant weather balloon?

Spy satellites don’t make a POTUS look feckless.

Your apology is accepted.

When did you go to work for NORAD..??