🦍 in early feb…

a chinese air balloon, which the chinese govt claims to be a civilian research balloon, was gunned down over the atlantic ocean after traveling across the us. it was:

• equipped with solar panels so it could charge while in motion

• about the size of 3 school buses

• monitoring communications such as radio or phone calls – it even flew near us military bases

🦍 why balloons?

• balloons are capable of reaching high altitudes and staying in the same spot - this first balloon went as high as 66,000 ft

• not a lot of metal, not many rough edges – hard to detect on radar

• hard to shoot down – it’s so big it could cause civilian harm, and hard to tell where the pieces will land

🦍 three more ufo’s

the us military shot down some more unidentified objects. in order, they were located:

1. off the coast of alaska

2. canada

3. the great lakes region

none of these were linked to the chinese gov’t, and it is still unclear what they are – as we have not yet recovered all of the remains

🦍 why the sudden increase

the north american aerospace command (norad) usually disregards certain objects based on size, speed, altitude… because tracking every single thing in the sky is unfeasible

• the recent discovery of the 3 objects following the spy balloon is due to a change in norad’s filters. they searched for smaller, slower, lower objects

• due to this change, more objects that would have before been undetected are popping up

• indeed, there were three cases that turned out to be chinese spy balloons during the trump administration as well - so it seems china has been sending these balloons for a while

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🕰 34 years ago today…

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