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Pentagon Refuses To Shoot Down Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Hovering Over Montana for Days



The Department of Defense announced on Thursday they have been monitoring a suspected Chinese spy balloon floating over the state of Montana for over two days.


Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told NBC News, “The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now.”


Ryder went on to say once the US Government was notified about the floating balloon they immediately started to notify officials in Montana to protect sensitive information.


Flights were temporarily grounded on Wednesday after many noticed the UFO.

Not joking: It was a UFO Flights at Billings Logan International Airport temporarily grounded Wednesday as many noticed an unidentified object in the sky https://t.co/VtJmCMzf0n
— John Martin (@MartinInMontana) February 2, 2023


The balloon is the size of three school buses!

Photo from KSVI-TV shows a massive Chinese spy balloon over Montana. The U.S. military is tracking it pic.twitter.com/BWUBERWO1J
— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) February 2, 2023

NBC News reported Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley, and other commanders reviewed the threat of the “Chinese stratospheric balloon” and presented several options to Joe Biden.


After evaluating the threat, the U.S. Military along with the White House opted not to shoot down the balloon. Debris from the floating device could possibly injure a civilian.

Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S. https://t.co/EXczyOYqI2
— CNBC (@CNBC) February 2, 2023

A video from a local resident captured of the suspected device.


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��#BREAKING: A Chinese surveillance balloon spotted in skies over northern U.S.⁰⁰��#UnitedStates | #USA

⁰A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and the U.S. government has discussed shooting it out of the sky pic.twitter.com/aSyJqLXQmX

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 2, 2023

As of now the U.S. military will continue to track the surveillance balloon and conduct all the necessary steps to prevent any sensitive data from being intercepted by the spy device.


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Forecast: Air Currents to Take China Spy Balloon Over US Heartland, Key Naval Base; Biden Refuses to Shoot It Down



A NOAA air current model shows the China spy balloon is expected to traverse the United States heartland through the Midwest and Southern states on Friday before heading out to the Atlantic Ocean passing over the U.S. Navy base at Newport News, Virginia. Joe Biden refused to shoot down the balloon, however Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a planned trip to Beijing in protest.

Any clue as to what this is in the sky? It’s moved a little bit in the past 40 minutes, but it was just as bright in daylight hours. pic.twitter.com/sNRnJSfJ7G
— John Martin (@MartinInMontana) February 2, 2023

The NOAA HYSPLIT* model was used to reverse track the balloon from China. The balloon flew over the Aleutian Islands, then into Canada air space before crossing into U.S. airspace over Montana and a U.S. nuclear missile base on Wednesday.

NOAA HYSPLIT model back traces the origin of the upper atmosphere #spyballoon in the past 5 days to #China.
Source: @ChrisWTOL pic.twitter.com/wwWAPa7Rop
— Saikiran Kannan | 赛基兰坎南 (@saikirankannan) February 3, 2023

Forecasting shows it continuing across the U.S. on Friday:

Based on Met. Models ( NOAA's HYSPLIT tool ) spy balloon could have been launched ~ 26th Jan, and slowly made its way over Japan -> Alaska -> Canada ->Mainland USA
In a little over 24 hrs it will make its way across to the Atlantic#osint #china #montana #spyballoon pic.twitter.com/lJbM6YfQt4
— Viper (@viper202020) February 3, 2023

The Pentagon has issued statements that downplayed the significance of the China spy balloon.


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[1tommygunner1927]

The sky is falling....the sky is falling! Here's a news flash:

We still have the Open Skies agreement with Russia; satellite over flies and on the ground inspections of certain sensitive sites by Russians here in the USA and our people in Russia.

Or maybe we disabled some Chinese satellites and all they have left are balloons....and it would take more than 1 balloon for EMP to be effective.

[Q in Arizona]

[Q in Arizona]

The sky is falling....the sky is falling! Here's a news flash:

We still have the Open Skies agreement with Russia; satellite over flies and on the ground inspections of certain sensitive sites by Russians here in the USA and our people in Russia.

Or maybe we disabled some Chinese satellites and all they have left are balloons....and it would take more than 1 balloon for EMP to be effective.

Yep satellites fly over us all the time the only dfference with this is the altitude and it wanted to be known. Very good distraction if one was in need of one and a great way to controll the headlines for the moment.

[Q in Arizona]

[Q in Arizona]

[1tommygunner1927]

Yep satellites fly over us all the time the only dfference with this is the altitude and it wanted to be known. Very good distraction if one was in need of one and a great way to controll the headlines for the moment.

Anything to take the heat off Hunter!

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Report: UK ‘Has No More Heavy Guns’ After Giving Them to Ukraine



All of the UK’s 30 serviceable AS-90 self-propelled artillery guns have been sent to the Zelensky regime.

A report claiming two Royal Artillery regiments were left completely disarmed due to Downing Street’s decision to send the guns to Ukraine comes as British hawks step up their public relations campaign to convince taxpayers to submit to a surge in military spending.



The British Army has no more heavy guns left after having given them all to Ukraine, according to a recent report.



All of the UK’s 30 serviceable AS-90 self-propelled artillery guns have been sent to the Zelensky regime, The Sun is reporting.


“The decision to give them away has stripped two Royal Artillery regiments, based on Salisbury Plain, Wilts, of all their working weapons,” wrote the outlet, which added that an artillery source told them: “If gunners don’t have guns we can’t fight, we can’t train.”


The news comes amid a high-profile push by British war hawks to convince the public to cough up for newer and fancier toys for the military.


Claiming that British fighting capabilities have been “hollowed out by spending cuts,” the former head of the UK’s Joint Forces Command, retired General Richard Barrons, wrote in a recent op-ed that “years of cuts to ammunition production mean that, for some types of key weapons, the army would run out in a busy afternoon.”


Opining that the UK’s military is now “barely tier two” – a designation which would place it among the ranks of Germany and Italy, rather than “tier one” militaries like those of the US, China, Russia, or France – Barrons insisted the Brits will have to fork over an additional ?ú3 billion to return to the upper echelon.


British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace also recently echoed the view the British military has been left “hollowed out and underfunded” in light of his government’s continuing campaign to pump Ukraine full of deadly weapons. “As the world gets more dangerous, defense should get a growing proportion of spend,” he reportedly urged.



The possibility that the UK would likely be left flat-footed in a military engagement has been greeted with increasing concern among British military members, but across the Atlantic, news that UK military supplies have been gutted has provoked a decidedly different response.



“The UK Is Giving Ukraine Lots of Artillery — Now The British Army Can Get Newer And Better Guns,” cheered Forbes in one particularly shameless headline.


By “donating to Ukraine more and more of its artillery,” the British Army is “effectively forcing the government in London finally to spend real money on new guns and launchers,” the author crowed.


But there’s little indication that view aligns with those of working-class Britons, who have endured one of the toughest years in recent memory. With half a million Brits on strike Wednesday amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in generations, issues like better pay and an end to draconian public spending cuts tended to be at the top of the list of demands – but ‘new heavy weapons’ was nowhere to be found.


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LIVE FEED: FAA Shuts Down Airspace Near Atlantic as Pentagon Plans to Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon After It Floated Over US with Biden’s Full Approval



The FAA on Saturday reportedly shut down air space near the Atlantic as the Pentagon gears up to shoot down the Chinse spy balloon.

BREAKING: FAA just grounded flights from Wilmington to Charleston, restricting air space. Reportedly clearing zone for live ordnance for possible military downing of Chinese spy craft over Atlantic coast
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 4, 2023

This is of course after the spy balloon was allowed to float over the United States with Joe Biden’s full approval.


Joe Biden refused to secure US airspace and allowed the Chinese to fly a high-altitude surveillance balloon over the US’s most sensitive military installations.


A reporter on Saturday asked Biden to comment on the Chinese spy balloon.


“We’re gonna take care of it,” Biden said.

SYRACUSE — “We’re gonna take care of it,” Biden says when asked to comment on China before entering his motorcade. A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon is now over North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/EOcaH7iTu0
— Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs) February 4, 2023

The balloon was spotted over Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday morning.

BREAKING: Chinese spy balloon now spotted over Charlotte, NC., where several high-altitude jet contrails have been reported. NC is home to a number of key US military installations, inclg Marine Camp Lejeune near the coast & Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, home of the 82nd Airborne
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 4, 2023

The China spy balloon was reportedly flying as low as 35,000 feet, according to Paul Sperry.

BREAKING: The Chinese spy craft has been reported flying as low as 35,000 feet and potentially in the path of commercial passenger jets above a number of states, alarming the FAA, according to federal aviation security sources
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 4, 2023

The spy balloon is over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as of 2 pm ET.


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