Posted on 02/16/2023 11:58:00 AM PST by dynachrome
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.
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I wonder if any of them were huge and triangular and if they were testing the in the Hudson Valley area in the mid-1980s?
It wouldn’t be a surprise if a few were still drifting around.
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This is totally true. Monkey Werx points them out on his show everyday. They don’t hide them.
Who knows. It could of been our own balloon they shot down.
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Is the Sierra Nevada Company owned by China or related to China in any way?
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