Big dog

Something was in front of the ISS this evening, small, dim, about a finger tip out in front. Did anyone else see it???

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

No, I haven't been to the ISS in a verrry long time.

Big dog

Well, next time you go, ask around.
Three of us all saw the small thing in front of the station. It was strange. I watch for the station when ever it’s clear and coming by.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Perhaps a Chinese UAP.

Big dog

Nah, the chinks have their own station and it wasn’t visible tonight.
What we saw was much smaller than the chinks station.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Well, it's a conundrum.

Big dog

I went to the MUFON website but it’s a pain to navigate.
My wife saw it first, I saw it as she was remarking about it, and my fishing buddy that lives about 15 miles away saw it too.

F.D.R.

That could very well be, conundrums seem to everywhere these days. I saw one just the other night on my way home from the tavern.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Was it the Chinese Spy Balloon?

Was The Government Ever Going To Tell Us About The Chinese Surveillance Balloon?
BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE
FEBRUARY 03, 2023
3 MIN READ

I went looking for aliens in Roswell two years ago on a reporting trip to New Mexico. The aliens might not exist, but the conspiracies certainly do.

In 1947, a rancher discovered a field of debris wider than a football field after a July thunderstorm at the height of the U.S. flying-saucer wave. Air Force officials initially said the material was from a flying disc before claiming it was a crashed weather balloon, but many remain skeptical of the government’s explanation given that such balloons don’t leave behind a wide area of destruction.

The military acknowledged the debris was part of a secret atomic project in 1994, but records remain classified. Though President Donald Trump said in 2020 he’s heard “very interesting” things about Roswell, he refused to declassify any documents.

Now, more than 75 years after the incident, more questions are arising over an apparent airborne espionage object 1,000 miles north of Roswell.

On Thursday afternoon, NBC News revealed that a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over Billings, Montana. The supposed weapon of espionage had apparently flown from the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and over Canada before making its way to airspace above the U.S. nuclear arsenal. According to NBC News, the balloon was spotted over the state that’s home to 150 warheads on Wednesday, near where the Chinese have been buying up American farmland.

“The U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days,” NBC reported. “Military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.”

Defense officials told reporters that military leaders refused to shoot the balloon down because a widespread debris field would pose a threat to civilian life in the rural state. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden was briefed on the issue on Wednesday.

If the Pentagon knew the surveillance tool was on its way to the nuclear arsenal, however, why didn’t the president have it shot down when it was over Alaska? Was Biden’s Wednesday briefing his first? Why wasn’t he told sooner? Why didn’t officials inform the public when it crossed into U.S. airspace? Did our government maybe not catch the balloon and are now covering for their own negligence? And why didn’t the Canadians shoot it down?

Even more troubling is why the Chinese would have a surveillance balloon over Montana in the first place, considering Beijing’s advanced satellites in low-earth orbit that provide all the bird’s eye images they need. Are they sending a message before Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the Chinese capital next week? Is espionage through TikTok not enough? We might not have ever known about the balloon had the press not snapped a photo of it.

We don’t know what happened at Roswell, and we probably never will. Was it actually a weather balloon that crashed? Was the object part of a military experiment? Could it have even been from a foreign government? Was it from the Empire — either an alien one from a galaxy far, far away or Red China?

Will Billings be the new Roswell?

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

https://justthenews.com/world/asia/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-reaches-kansas-gop-sen-marshall?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Suspected Chinese spy balloon reaches Kansas: GOP Sen. Marshall
"President Biden must protect the sovereignty of the U.S. whether it’s our airspace or the southern border."

By Ben Whedon
Updated: February 3, 2023 - 4:16pm

The suspected Chinese spy balloon is has now reached Kansas and Nebraska, according to Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall.

"I can confirm the Chinese spy ballon [sic] is over NE KS. My staff is in contact with law enforcement officials," the lawmaker tweeted on Friday. "I condemn any attempts the Chinese make to spy on Americans. President Biden must protect the sovereignty of the U.S. whether it’s our airspace or the southern border."

It is unclear from Marshall's statement whether the balloon has entered Kansas airspace.

The balloon entered the U.S. via the Aleutian Islands chain of Alaska, before entering Canada and reentering U.S. territory in the skies over Montana, officials confirmed Thursday.

For the balloon to have reached Nebraska or Kansas, it likely first passed through either Wyoming or South Dakota. The Pentagon has declined to update the public in real time on the location of the balloon.

In a heated exchange, a Pentagon spokesman declined on Friday to specify the balloon's exact location. When a reporter pressed him on the public's right to know the location of the balloon, the spokesman indicated that "the public certainly has the ability to look up in the sky and see where the balloon is."

Pentagon Spokesman snaps at reporter when asked about details:

“The public certainly has the ability to look up in the sky and see where the balloon is.” pic.twitter.com/Z8kinIiR31

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) February 3, 2023

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

China claims it a wayward weather balloon. BS!!!! Shoot that sucker down.

Big dog

If the genius Generals in our Airforce can’t figure out how to remove it from our (OUR) air space , they should find another job. A bunch of small holes in the balloon should bring it down slowly and controlled, and land it anywhere they want. Unless it’s all part of the BIG PLAN!