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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 17, 2023, 11:35:32 pm
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Biden Administration Spent over $1.6M Shooting Down What May Be $12 Hobby Balloons
Kristina Wong 17 Feb 2023
The Biden administration has spent more than $1,600,000 million shooting down what may be $12 balloons.
President Joe Biden on Thursday addressed the nation for the first time on the spate of shoot-downs of objects by the United States military over the past two weeks — four shoot-downs in total involving a Chinese spy balloon and three additional still-unknown objects.
Later Thursday, a report emerged that one of the unknown objects might have been a $12 balloon belonging to an Illinois-based hobbyist club.
“A small, globe-trotting balloon declared ‘missing in action’ by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10,” Aviation Week reported.
The outlet said the club’s balloon — a “silver-coated, party-style, ‘pico balloon'” — was last seen on Feb. 10 at 38,910 feet off the west coast of Alaska. That was the same day Biden ordered an F-22 fighter jet to shoot down an object at around that altitude in that area.
In fact, the outlet reported, the descriptions of all of the three still-unidentified objects that were shot down after the Chinese spy balloon “match the shapes, altitudes and payloads of the small pico balloons, which can usually be purchased for $12-180 each, depending on the type.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/17/biden-administration-spent-over-1-6m-shooting-down-what-may-be-12-hobby-balloons/
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It's not cheap to butch up someone as incompetent as Brandon.
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The Air Force May Have Actually Shot Down a Wholesome Ham Radio Balloon
Story by Andrew Daniels • Yesterday 10:27 AM
The U.S. Air Force may have shot down an inexpensive pico balloon from ham radio enthusiasts last week, thinking it was something bigger.
Pico balloons are usually used to measure weather variables.
Thousands of pico balloons are launched every day, which could create further headaches for the Air Force.
Unfortunately for those who want to believe, it’s looking less and less likely that the U.S. Air Force hit an alien spacecraft when it recently downed a mysterious flying object. Instead, the truth is probably a bit more awkward.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-air-force-may-have-actually-shot-down-a-wholesome-ham-radio-balloon/ar-AA17CkPK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=8652eab069ab4a82b688852b98719542
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Were the ham radio operators in China, by any chance? :silly:
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The idea that this clown show has two more years is beyond comprehension. The lives that will be lost because of this incompetence, the trillions of dollars squandered, and corruption elevated to higher levels of protected status.
At what point do the people in the USA wake up to the total corruption, the death of their republic? When? When? When they are starving to death? Perhaps not even then!