[flamberge]

High altitude balloons, like the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials.

Pure rubbish.

Easily spotted, slow travel time, uncontrollable arrival time, unreliable routing.

No intelligence official believes what was stated in that article.

[dfwgator]

Easily spotted, slow travel time, uncontrollable arrival time, unreliable routing.

[Portnoy001]

No kidding. Using this has a weapon makes no sense when they have ICBMs and SLBMs. Just goofy idea.

[Chunga85]

“Easily spotted, slow travel time, uncontrollable arrival time, unreliable routing.”

It’s frightening to see that the human race has largely been perfectly trained as obedient Pavlovian dogs to heel and snap in a matter of 24 hours.

[Flying Circus]

My thoughts too. I feel like there is a lot of over-reaction to this. All the hyperbolic functions suggested for this balloon can be achieved more effectively by some other method. I think it could be some kind of data gathering, but not as direct as taking pictures or dropping bombs via balloon.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"No intelligence official believes what was stated in that article."

Yeap. Whatever MSM says you can bet it's the opposite. They keep saying it's from China. What evidence do they have of that?

All the public know so far is that it was first observed over the Aleutian Islands and following the Jet stream through the US.

Bill Gates and one of his weather programs more likely.

[Mariner]

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