Anybody Else See it?

[firefighter ontheside]

The China balloon went just south of my firehouse and north of my house.  The two locations are about 30 miles apart, but you can see it from both at the same time.  I didn't get good pictures, but my wife did.  We are about 30 miles south of St Louis.  It went over around 4pm.  


 

 

[Jeff]

I don't understand why it's still up there. They afraid of dispersing something if they shoot it down?

[SawyerTed]

Apparently it has some sort of heavy technology module they are afraid of hitting something or somebody on the ground if they shoot it down.  I suspect as soon as it is over US controlled ocean I will be ours.

[Jeff]

Then we should go up and get it.

[Jeff]

Call Elon.

[firefighter ontheside]

A friend was able to take this picture with some fancy camera lenses.  It has a large module suspended from it.  


 

 

[Jeff]

Looks mostly like a slolar array. It's a balloon,  how much could it weigh?

[Mooseherder]

Does it say BIDEN on the side of it?!  ;D

[firefighter ontheside]

Maybe theres a little Chinese guy in it.

[thecfarm]

If we can hit a house 1000 miles away with a missile, then we should be able to do something.  ???

[Paul_H]

   It's only a paper moon, made by some chinese  guy

[hacknchop]

Quite a big hoopla and search over a nuclear capsule smaller then a dime so whats the catch phrase nowadays "out of an abundance of caution" they are waiting until its over some safe place to take it down in a controlled fashion.Who knows what could be aboard something like that? Chemicals,viruses all kinds of nasty stuff possible.

[SawyerTed]

It's 60,000 feet up.  No way to go up and get it. 

[sawguy21]

They seem to think it won't see anything that is not already visible by satellite, at least that is the official version. They probably don't want to provoke the Chinese who claim it is a research device that strayed off course.

[btulloh]

Well we know they're open and honest and they're motives are pure, so . . .

[rusticretreater]

I'm sure we have enough assets to know everything about this IFO(Identified Flying Object).  Its better that it is left flying, highly publicized with media coverage and a full conspiracy life cycle allowing maximum embarrassment to China.  

[Texas Ranger]

The shuttle came down over east Texas and caused very little damage in an area with more population and structures than Montana, Alaska and Canada.   

[Southside]

Something else was shot down over Billings, MT just a little bit ago, there is video, the flash is a lot bigger than any balloon would make. Another one of these balloons is presently over Latin America.  Something is very wrong. 

[DbltreeBelgians]

  air_plane


Research device my A#*
Time to take care of business!!
This is unreal!!

Brent

[21incher]

I am really worried about who is controlling America if we don't take it down. We could basically vaporize it into tiny pieces. 
I think EMPs work best at that altitude and one up north along with one from the south wouldn't be good. Could be a data acquisition run to determine the best coordinates to place them electronically.  

[Walnut Beast]

It's  amazing what this country is letting the Chinese get away with. They would shoot anything down in their airspace. In the South Sea they are claiming theirs since the early 90s and have built a enormous military base on the coral reef and have had their fighter jets on us many times. But who cares just do a TikTok video. Keep letting them build ship ports all over the world in strategic locations , spy, manipulate and take over financial markets. They could take over someday without a bullet fired. The threat is absolutely real! The amount of spy's they have in this country would be mind boggling if people only knew. 

[Ianab]

The latest evidence indicates that the balloon was sent to try to get in touch regarding a car's extended warranty.

[Chuck White]

I have always thought that a weather balloon didn't LOITER, it just went with the wind!

This one seems to have some sort of flight controls.

[Jeff]

And I can't believe we can't devise a way to go get it. We have drones that can fly that high.

[Walnut Beast]

Pentagon flat out said in a news briefing it is indeed spying surveillance