Hello John and Doves,
This is interesting news:
A Chinese spy balloon is being
'monitored' by NORAD as it drifts over the northern
U.S. Seems it has been tracked by NORAD for some time,
and they've been watching it since it entered our air
space. It had been flying over the U.S. for a
couple of days by the time this hit the news on February
2.
Officials are calling this a
"high-altitude surveillance" balloon. Biden chose
against firing at the balloon, which was spotted over
Montana on Wednesday and Thursday, after consulting with the
nation's top military brass."
F-22s and AWACs (airborne early
warning aircraft) were mobilized by NORAD and the Billings,
Montana airport was shutdown.
The reason given for not shooting
this down is "risk to safety and security of the people on
the ground."
Officials are telling us that
"currently this balloon has limited value from an
intelligence collection perspective" and "we are taking all
necessary steps to protect against foreign intelligence
collection of sensitive information."
Sure looks like all they are doing
is watching it. And this "surveillance" balloon
wouldn't be there if it wasn't of value to "somebody".
"...Republican lawmakers and other
prominent conservatives were quick to lash out at the
president for allowing the balloon to remain in the air."
McCarthy is requesting a "Gang of
Eight briefing." Tweeting "China's brazen disregard
for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be
addressed."
Jack Posobiec tweeted, "The CCP
can send spy balloons over our nuclear silos and we will do
nothing Be (because) we are owned."
run time 2:46
The balloon is the size of three
buses and has a "technology bay". And it's been
hoovering over our U.S. military installation that oversees
Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles.
That should be worrisome..to someone? "Malmstrom AFB,
in northern Montana, is in charge of ICBMs...."
Montana Military
Bases | MilitaryBases.com
A couple weeks ago, Ted Cruz said
'Democrats are owned by the CCP'. Joe Biden is just
too cozy with the Chinese. Back in 2021, Cruz said,
"China poses the single greatest geopolitical threat to the
United States over the next century...One of the really
disturbing patterns we've seen with the Biden nominee (for
U.S. secretaries/cabinet nominees) after Biden nominee is a
warm embrace of China." He was referring to primarily
Raimondo and Mayorkas, among others.
Ted
Cruz: Joe Biden Has Rushed to ‘Embrace’ Communist China
Mayorkas, DHS
director, has kept our southern border wide open - telling
us "the border is secure", which everyone knows is an
outright lie. Wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese
told him to step away from the border and leave it
unprotected! And Raimondo is the U.S.
Secretary of Commerce. "The husband of Commerce
Secretary Gina Raimondo is a top executive at a tech
company that counts a venture capital firm linked to the
Chinese Communist Party as one of its investors." He
is the chief people officer of an AI firm backed by Danhua
Capital - which is financed by the CCP. Sure looks
like our Commerce Secretary has some conflicts of
interest!
Gina
Raimondo's husband reportedly works at company linked to
China
Did the CCP know the U.S. military
would not shoot these down? Did Biden agree to
that? These balloons are gathering information that
Chinese satellites can't get as these balloons can "hoover"
over a site. I don't know where these balloons came
from - looks like Canada? Or maybe CCP in
Montana? (There are reports that backtracking shows
the balloons came from China, over Alaska and down through
Canada. Did Trudeau warn the US and we just didn't
hear about that or did he say nothing?)
We are told they first appeared in
US airspace in Montana.
The CCP probably had reassurances
from Biden et al. that they could do all the 'surveilling'
they wanted or whatever else they are doing up there without
any bother from the U.S. military.
The CCP is getting some use out of
these balloons or they wouldn't be up there!
I certainly question the "top
brasses' reasoning for not shooting this down ("safety and
security of people on the ground") - Montana is a pretty
rural state! And they are allowing this balloon to
traverse the U.S. to the Atlantic Ocean! And the
Pentagon said "it is likely unable to collect more
information that is available to spy satellites."
Well, if that were true, why go to the bother of balloons in
the first place? China has spy satellites flying over
the U.S. now!
After looking at several news
articles about these balloons, this article from South Korea
has much more information:
South Korea's CNN branch is also
questioning the U.S. response to these spy balloons and
exactly what might they be doing. Reporting that "US
officials have said the flight path of the balloon, first
spotted over Montana on Thursday, could potentially
take it over a "number of sensitive sites" and
officials have said they are taking steps to "protect
against foreign intelligence collection."
"But what's less clear is why
Chinese spies would want to use a balloon, rather than a
satellite to gather information. This is not the first
time a Chinese balloon has been spotted over the US,
but this seems to be acting differently to previous ones,
a US defense official said. "It is appearing
to hang out for a longer period of time, this time around,
and is more persistent than in previous instances.
That would be one distinguishing factor," the official
said...
Peter Layton, "a fellow at the
Griffith Asia Institute in Australia and former Royal
Australian Air Force officer was interviewed for this South
Korea article. He said, "Balloon payloads can
now weigh less and so the balloons can be smaller, cheaper,
and easier to launch" than satellites..." And they
aren't always easy to spot. "And balloons can do some
things that satellites can't." "An advantage of
balloons is that they can be steered using onboard computers
to take advantage of winds and they can go up and down to a
limited degree. This means they can loiter to
a limited extent. A satellite can't loiter, and so
many are needed to criss-cross an area of interest to
maintain surveillance"...
"According to Layton, the suspected
Chinese balloon is likely collecting information on US
communication systems and radars. "Some of these
systems use extremely high frequencies that are short range,
can be absorbed by the atmosphere and being line-of-sight
are very directional. It's possible a balloon might be
a better collection platform for such specific technical
collection than a satellite"... "Retired US Air Force Col.
Cedric Leighton, a CNN military analyst, echoed those
thoughts. "They could be scooping up signals
intelligence. In other words, they're looking at our
cell phone traffic, our radio traffic...Intelligence data
collected by the balloon could be relayed in real time via a
satellite link back to China..."
"Analysts also noted that Montana
and nearby states are home to US intecontinnental ballistic
missile silos and strategic bomber bases."
China is looking into reports on
these two balloons. Yah, right.
The US cannot "ensure the balloon
cannot collect any sensitive data" - what a ridiculous
statement to make to the public! And no one can say
there isn't an EMP or a bioweapon on board! Even Lt.
General Michael Flynn tweeted the possibility of the balloon
being big enough to carry an EMP device.
And US officials have stated that
the CCP balloon is moving southeast and is expected to fly
over the US for a few more days. It's expected to be over SE
Missouri by Saturday. Flying over South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kentucky,
Tennessee and North and South Carolina. Flying right
over where an EMP would do the most damage - the middle of
the country. And it's flying right over a bunch of
silos on its trip and I don't know how many military
installations. And they announced the balloon did fly
over Malmstrom Air Base! Also, NORAD and the Canadian
DOD are reporting the second balloon is being tracked
'somewhere' over Canada.
If Joe Biden wasn't president with
all of his CCP buddies, I would write that this is 'just
unbelievable!'. This thing should have been shot down from
the get-go - not allowed to hover over military bases/silos
and collect all kinds of info/data/transmissions/who knows.
The war may come sooner, much
sooner.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance