What China said about suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted over US - CNN

[TexasTowelie]

The US is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States, defense officials said. CNN's Steven Jiang has more on Beijing's response to the discovery.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

1. Balloongate......

will hopefully soon fizzle out. It's now a new shiny object for Rethugs to crow about.....

Someone in a YouTube video comment section said the Chinese are simply mapping and photographing all the American farm land they've bought.......

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My guesses are that our intelligence and military folks are jamming the hell out of this thing in order to neuter it, and hopefully, there's a way to gently deflate it so it can come down slowly onto a field somewhere safe in a controlled fashion.

A lot of folks will have egg on face if it turns out to be something innocent that just got lost like a scientific or adventure experiment.

Thanks for posting, TT.

KY

[Roy Rolling]

2. Easy choice

Capture it.

[BradBo]

3. Really?

A Chinese spy could literally fly a private plane over the northern us right now if they want.

[dalton99a]

4. It is not a "meteorological" balloon, which is why the Pentagon is involved.

[MagaSmash]

5. Shoot it down? Always guns first? Just puncture it and let it drift to the ground.

[aka-chmeee]

8. And to puncture the balloon you're going to use... ? /nt

[Jarqui]

6. Since it is off course, the Chinese will have no complaint with the

US taking it down and inspecting it.

[roamer65]

9. +1000

[geardaddy]

7. Just want to know if they washed before they sent the balloon up

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x85vlvq

[roamer65]

10. I wonder how many are shooting at it.

You just know it’s gonna happen. Idiots gonna idiot.