Subj : Up, Up, and away, in
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Thu Feb 16 2023 07:25:00


Hi Ky!

 >   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"?
 KM> Stinking up the sky!
 
Not to mention screwing up Superman: "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a
Chinese weather balloon!"

 > 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).
 

 KM> Apparently it's not sudden, and has been going on for years, but
 KM> the problem is that all of a sudden, civilians noticed. And
 KM> didn't get sidetracked by "UFOs".
 
I'm one of those who doesn't ardently believe there is life beyond Earth
but then also think "why couldn't there be?".  


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

Lots of ways to create the illusion of UFO.  Us Earthlings are wandering
around trying to visit other potential life sources, why not them trying
to visit us?  (Wonder if Mars mothers warn their children not to talk to
strangers? !  ...Have seen the comic panel where when UFO's go past 
Earth they lock their doors!)



 > 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.
 KM> I doubt it was for surveillance. Not for weather either. Both are
 KM> better covered by satellites, of which they have hundreds if not
 KM> thousands.
 
We still launch weather balloons for lower-level data.  


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

"That's one big goose flying rather high!"  

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

"Return to sender / address unknown ...."  Actually I did have the 
thought when the news showed the N.C. strike of pathogens being 
released.



 
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