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As always I look for facts in situations like this. So I first started wondering how high is the extent of a country's sovereign airspace? According to Wiki, There is no international agreement on the vertical extent of sovereign airspace,[citation needed] with suggestions ranging from about 30 km (19 mi)—the extent of the highest aircraft and balloons—to about 160 km (100 mi)

So the balloon being a 66,000 feet is within the lowest claim of sovereign airspace, but it seem that isn't totally clear regarding international agreement.

The fact is china has satellites that spy on us and we have satellites that spy on them, as well as intel gathering ships operating in the Gulf of China etc, they probably have intel ships out there somewhere as well. So you have to wonder just how technologically advanced is a friggin balloon at intel gathering that it can provide them something more than high tech assets?

According to what's been reported it was SecDefs call not to take it out and I'm sure there are some very good reasons for that in their minds. Hey maybe it's just a trial balloon?
 
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Glenn's take said:
You missed my youtube video of Jack Nicholson as the Joker shooting down the balloon and letting all the gas out from the Michael Keaton Batman. Get the numbers right.
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I included it, my dude! It's the one truncated to "view embedded media." I would never give you short shrift and appreciate all of your takes.
 
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1_Cool_CAT said:
Who is running this country & calling all the shots? They want Joe gone, I mean, I take it that way, the FBI is searching his houses for some reason?
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To show compliance and to obfuscate the fact that he WAS NOT even allowed to POSSESS classified docs from his time as VP or after.
 
BC_Wader said:
Strange because apparently it was spotted over Missouri. Just a weird even unfolding right before our eyes. Or under our noses.
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It's over western Ky. Maybe. What I see lights up like the space station. The space station arrays are visible a few hours after dusk or before dawn. It looks like that, but the iss moves across the sky in 3-10 minutes. This is taking it's time.

I'm looking to the west of Paducah.
 
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BigBlueDave said:
It's over western Ky. Maybe. What I see lights up like the space station. The space station arrays are visible a few hours after dusk or before dawn. It looks like that, but the iss moves across the sky in 3-10 minutes. This is taking it's time.

I'm looking to the west of Paducah.
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It’s the Quilters
 
It's what so many countries do before they launch an attack. It's just a different way of doing it. There's no way Biden or any of the other globalists are going to shoot these down. How would congress replace the kickbacks and decision peddling? Who's going to make those 1500$ iPhones? Who's going to keep the NBA solvent?

"Balloons be damned. There's a digital reset that needs to be done for our final installments to clear our accounts!" said the entire congress on condition of anonymity.
 
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I get not shooting it down over land. I’d it crashed and killed someone that would be awful. But man. As soon as that thing crossed over our portion of the Atlantic? Splash one bandit.

“Hey China? Yeah. It’s the President. Come get your garbage.”
 
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Similar accounts have been reported recently of such balloons over Hawaii, Japan, India, and the Phillipines. Not all at the same time, tho
 
I can't get over the goobers on twitter posting the video of the bright motionless ball of light in the darkened sky and freaking out over it. IT'S THE MOON if you haven't already guessed.
 
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My guess is that we haven't shot it down b/c we're monitoring the hell out of its communications and gathering a ton of data about it and its capabilities.
 
^ probably correct. People with agendas have been freaking out all day and calling for the balloon to be shot down into a million pieces. I think our govt. would like to get it out of the sky as intact as possible for a variety of obvious reasons.
 
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Yeah our country has become soft. Military probably issues crocs and iPhones as the only equipment to take into battle.
 
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And FWIW, I wouldn't think it'd be advisable to act like Captain Patriot or one of those cultish cartoon Trump memes where he's built like Arnold and standing on a tank and immediately shoot the sucker down as it's floating above various towns. The balloon was detected and was left to continue floating so we can observe it's communications, frequencies, and possibly reverse engineer it's software to learn more about it since it honestly poses no threat at this time. Some here wanna act like anti-war hippies who wants America to be left on its own but at the same time can't wait for us to flex our military muscle and shoot shit out of the sky, citizens and their property underneath be damned.
 
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Girthang said:
Perfect for launching an EMP over the center of a country
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This is what I heard. The optimal height to detonate an emp was 95000ft. This balloon was at 80000 to 85000 feet when it was first spotted. It could be a dry run to test an emp attack without setting off our early warning systems.
 
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Nightwish84 said:
And FWIW, I wouldn't think it'd be advisable to act like Captain Patriot or one of those cultish cartoon Trump memes where he's built like Arnold and standing on a tank and immediately shoot the sucker down as it's floating above various towns. The balloon was detected and was left to continue floating so we can observe it's communications, frequencies, and possibly reverse engineer it's software to learn more about it since it honestly poses no threat at this time. Some here wanna act like anti-war hippies who wants America to be left on its own but at the same time can't wait for us to flex our military muscle and shoot shit out of the sky, citizens and their property underneath be damned.
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That’s why I say wait until it’s over our portion of the Atlantic and blow it outta the sky.
 
Nightwish84 said:
And FWIW, I wouldn't think it'd be advisable to act like Captain Patriot or one of those cultish cartoon Trump memes where he's built like Arnold and standing on a tank and immediately shoot the sucker down as it's floating above various towns. The balloon was detected and was left to continue floating so we can observe it's communications, frequencies, and possibly reverse engineer it's software to learn more about it since it honestly poses no threat at this time. Some here wanna act like anti-war hippies who wants America to be left on its own but at the same time can't wait for us to flex our military muscle and shoot shit out of the sky, citizens and their property underneath be damned.
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It could’ve been taken down over the Pacific. I assume it took 2-3 days travel over water since NORAD had been tracking it. Plenty of time to safely drop it. Think I speak for most Americans when I say I’d prefer unaccounted for Chinese spy aircraft not enter our airspace, fly over our homes and tour our bases and missile silos. That shouldn’t be a partisan expectation.
 
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BlueRunner11 said:
It could’ve been taken down over the Pacific. I assume it took 2-3 days travel over water since NORAD had been tracking it. Plenty of time to safely drop it. Think I speak for most Americans when I say I’d prefer unaccounted for Chinese spy aircraft not enter our airspace, fly over our homes and tour our bases and missile silos. That shouldn’t be a partisan expectation.
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He can't help it. He has to prove how nonpartisan he is by accusing everyone else of being hyper partisan.
 
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