Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Wed Feb 15 2023 16:20:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
>   KM> Not to be outdone, China now plans to shoot down one of its own
>   KM> balloons... (or how China 'proves' "It wasn't us!")
> 
> Why does this remind me of "he who smelt it dealt it"?

Stinking up the sky!

> Any theories as to why the 'sudden' usage of balloon surveillance?
> Possibly not new, just travelling at a reduced altitude because of
> weather conditions (lower Jet Stream?  I don't know enough about it
> other than its path moves).

Apparently it's not sudden, and has been going on for years, but the 
problem is that all of a sudden, civilians noticed. And didn't get 
sidetracked by "UFOs".

[The "flying triangles" they've been running as a distraction are quite 
obviously camera artifacts. I have one that makes round "UFOs" due to 
condensation spotting. Several of our highway cams here make "flying 
triangles" when the sun hits 'em just right.)

> 
> Also, I don't recall anything on if they were transmitting data.  Seems
> they were not; waiting to be collected later.  Sneaky: if if doesn't
> radiate a signal harder to detect.

I doubt it was for surveillance. Not for weather either. Both are better 
covered by satellites, of which they have hundreds if not thousands.

Nope, I think this was a couple things:

1) Ongoing "see what we can get away with" which finally rubbed up 
against suspicious civilians, which forced our gov't to officially pay 
attention. (It's not like NORAD didn't know what was in our air space.)

2) Mapping wind patterns for dropping pathogens, having noticed what a 
dither we got into with the one they sent by air express. (China having 
an appalling lack of ability to think ahead. Absolutely does not occur 
to them that what they send out to the world can come back on them.)
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