Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Feb 12 2023 12:33:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:

> Also makes me wonder if it happens more often than we know.
> 
> Mike

Absolutely.

I did not see it myself, but this is what I've seen reported:

Friday night: sighted by local residents over Billings MT, shortly 
before sunset.
Photos shown by local news, a large balloon for sure, but visible 
payload mostly being solar panels.
Not near as high altitude as claimed, more like 35,000 feet.
Malmstrom AFB scrambled jets.
Shortly thereafter there was an explosion over Billings at about 35,000 
feet (video played by local news), which looked a great deal like the 
one from SC on Saturday.
Balloon not reported downwind, and you can bet everyone downwind was out 
there looking.

Balloon also reported over Missouri on Friday. Obviously not the same one.

Saturday, supposedly the same balloon is shot down beyond the Carolinas. 
That's about a week's transit time via wind, so again obviously not the 
same one.

So now we have three.

Few days later another is reported over Alaskan waters, and shot down. 
Few hours later another was reported over the Yukon, and was also shot 
down by the US Air Force. (Was that yesterday? I've stopped keeping 
track. I gather they didn't bother notifying Hairboy until after the 
fact. Then again, would you??) This looks to me like the military has 
taken things into its own hands; obviously Brandon isn't keeping up.

So now we have five...

Given the Chinese way is to swamp you with nonsense so you don't notice 
the real attack, I'd guess these were part of a much larger swarm.

And certainly not "weather balloons".

Note that NORAD tracks anything larger than a goose, so it's not like 
they didn't know.

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A story from the Cold War era:

Objective: steal a bucket of sand from an American beach.

The Russians send a stealth submarine, which hides off the coast and 
disgorges a scuba diver all in black, who sneaks up to the beach under 
cover of darkness, shovels up the required sand, swims back to the sub, 
and off they go, never once seen by anyone.

The Chinese send a million tourists to the beach.
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