Posted on 02/03/2023 9:40:53 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal.
Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois.
Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to “provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats”, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company.
The balloons are carrying hi-tech radars designed to simultaneously track many individual vehicles day or night, through any kind of weather. The tests, which have not previously been reported, received an FCC license to operate from mid-July until September, following similar flights licensed last year.
Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us Read more Arthur Holland Michel, the co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York, said, “What this new technology proposes is to watch everything at once. Sometimes it’s referred to as ‘combat TiVo’ because when an event happens somewhere in the surveilled area, you can potentially rewind the tape to see exactly what occurred, and rewind even further to see who was involved and where they came from.”
The tests have been commissioned by the US Southern Command (Southcom), which is responsible for disaster response, intelligence operations and security cooperation in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Southcom is a joint effort by the US army, navy, air force and other forces... [snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
To be honest, there is some weird cognitive dissonance in sending bucketloads of weapons to Ukraine because apparently it is of vital interest to American security, but an unmanned Chinese spycraft can just float over military bases in the USA with no armed response.
Hope everyone’s ready for an emp. Probly should keep HT’s in a faraday cage.
Made my first ever HF contact last Sunday, with a guy in Canada, during winter field day.
We’re getting ready. Are you?
ps I got 74 contacts! Which ain’t too shabby for a noob.
Is the Pentagon buying them from China? Maybe they’re just making delivery.
Abrogating one’s Amendment-guaranteed that makes unlawful invasion of one’s (including an incorporated entity) personal privacy and business by our elected government.
oddley Sierra Nevada Corporation does surveillance work.
I applied there
If nothing else, this incident will probably instigate internal treaties regarding where space ends and a nation’s controlled airspace ‘legally’ begins.
Because at present, we (and various other countries) tolerate our adversaries’ satellites flying over our territory and scooping up intel. As long as it’s in space, satellites freely collect, and no nation pitches a fit (yet) or seriously threatens to shoot down the satellite (yet).
The Pfentagon
they they rowled up when you “linger and loiter”. but know when satellites pass by.
What HF rig you got?
My best right now is a Yaesu FT-DX10
My old rigs are in a metal trash can
for safekeeping..
One commentator said: Biden and the DoD are unwilling to shoot-down this Chinese balloon - for the simple reason that we also have spy balloons flying over China.
Very interesting....great post!
Or maybe they ARE Bidens.
Biden got paid to let this thing fly over Am as long as it wants. China paid biden to NOT shoot it down. THIS is how much biden cares abt Am and its people. He gets millions. Today he is going for a long weekend and our military will TRACK this thing and have a mtg next week to figure out what to do. Good job dems. They knew this thing was coming for 3 months. Could have shot it down over the water or Alaska. Joey never thought we would know. Wonder how many millions he got paid to destroy Am? TRAITOR.
I feel like Im living in Clown World.
Is EVERYONE a lying, sociopathic freak?
NBD
Our communist masters have a plan that is almost complete...
All we can do is to relax and keep grazing blissfully...
Once we are in the camps, we will not need to worry...
[Is EVERYONE a lying, sociopathic freak?]
Only 90% of politicians, 100% of media (”comedy”, “news”, etc.)
I could tell the story of a 20+ year former friend - would seemingly go way out of her way to be helpful - incredible resource - then completely the opposite.
I’ve now had several like this (at least three). I’m not saying it happens to all like this - I’m just saying all three were jabbed and BIG believers in the jab. Only one has walked away from the jab.
But I’m already facing multiple challenges on several fronts and this Jekyll-and-Hyde behavior is quite unnerving. One I have written off forever. Just dealt with her two weeks ago.
[I feel like I’m living in Clown World.]
That’s because you (we) actually are living in such a world.
It is Isaiah 5:20 in action.
The goats, fueled by the spirit of antichrist, are destroying every normal thing they can.
They’re preparing the world for THE Antichrist. Some of them may not even know what it will eventually produce but they are DETERMINED to destroy every norm.
It’s like how everyone was glued to Dr. Mengele 2 - the guy who funded the thing they’re worried about. But never bothered telling anyone that little detail.
“provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats”,
The southern border is the place for narcotics traffcing so that comment is bullsh##
Homeland security threats AKA white domestic terrorists
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