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China tested dropping hypersonic missiles from balloons in 2018: Report

February 09, 2023 - balloons in the past, that isn’t a likely use for these airships,” Crespo told The Epoch Times via email. “The biggest threat is sending one or more of these high altitude balloons over the U.S. with a small nuclear EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) device.”

“Detonated at extremely high altitude, they could knock out power and communications across the US, wreaking widespread havoc for a year or more without firing a shot on the ground," the defense expert ...

Jason Bermas: Chinese spy balloons part of an integrated global satellite network

February 20, 2023 - balloons, satellites

"Now, what these balloons are [is that they] actually are an integrated global satellite network," Bermas remarked. In response, Morgan mentioned that other world powers have the means to launch such aircraft.

Bermas said balloons and satellites, such as the one recently shot down, travel from Asia to America and throughout the Arctic circle. Aside from tracking airspace, these satellites also track waterways wherever they ...

Terrifying: Chinese ‘spy balloons’ seen as dry run for nuclear EMP attack

February 06, 2023 -

"High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key 'delivery platform' for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials," the Washington Examiner reported. "Spy balloons, used by Japan to drop bombs during World War II, are now far more sophisticated, can fly at up to 200,000 feet, evade detection, and can carry a small nuclear bomb that, if ...

New evidence reveals Chinese spy balloons are also flying over Japan and Taiwan

June 28, 2023 -

The BBC, in collaboration with artificial intelligence company Synthetaic, analyzed extensive satellite data and uncovered multiple images of balloons traveling all over East Asia, dating as far back as September 2021.

This joint search also revealed that a Chinese spy balloon may have flown over Taiwan this very month.

The BBC Panorama team found two photos taken by Taiwan's weather service showing a balloon flying over Taipei from 2021. Synthetaic Founder ...

“Spy balloons” are part of global Chinese surveillance, US military and national security officials say

February 14, 2023 -

China claimed that it was just a "weather balloon," but according to a Department of State official who requested anonymity, it was "capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations." (Related: Communist China admits to flying spy balloon over military sites.)

"The high altitude balloon's equipment was clearly for intelligence surveillance and inconsistent with the equipment onboard weather balloons," the official said in a written statement....

Pentagon admits three ‘mystery objects’ blown out of the sky were nothing but balloons, not ‘aliens’

February 15, 2023 -

What's more, defense officials also said that the balloons in question may even have served some commercial purposes and not for spying. Specifically, the intelligence community believes the objects, which differed greatly from the giant Chinese spy balloon Joe Biden finally ordered shot down after it crossed the length of the country on Feb. 4, "could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby ...

CCP has been creating spy balloons for YEARS out of a heavily guarded naval base in southern China

February 10, 2023 - balloons that have flown over U.S. territory.

"This is what we assess as part of a larger Chinese surveillance balloon program,"  Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. "This is a program that's been operated for several years."

Analysts are still uncertain just how large China's spy balloon fleet is. But one U.S. official who spoke with reporters suggests there have been "dozens" of espionage flights conducted since 2018.

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Threat of EMP attack on U.S. detailed in 2013 – a decade before Chinese ‘spy’ balloons that could deliver EMP weapon spotted over U.S.

February 07, 2023 - balloons are very stealthy. And late last week, the Washington Examiner reported that they could be used to ferry an EMP device over the U.S. to be detonated during a time of war, or possibly to start a war.

"High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key 'delivery platform' for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials," the report ...

Object shot down by Air Force in Canada with $400,000 missile may have been a $12 hobby balloon

February 24, 2023 -

According to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, one of its pico balloons went missing as it was flying north. A pico balloon is a small balloon used for measuring temperature, pressure and humidity. (Related: US fighter jet takes down THIRD high-altitude airborne object in Canada.)

There is very strong evidence to suggest that the hobby group's balloon is the object shot down by an Air Force F-22 fighter jet with a Sidewinder missile on Feb. 11 ...

Did Pentagon shoot down $12 balloon with $400,000 missile

February 23, 2023 -

(Article republished from GreatGameIndia.com)

Inquiries about whether one of the unexplained objects the Pentagon fired down off the coast of Alaska earlier this month was a $12 hobby balloon are being met with obstinate denials from the Pentagon.

Last week, after a group devoted to the pastime, reported one of its balloons “missing in action” above Alaska, speculation that the unidentified aerial item the administration shot down earlier this ...

SKY WARS: Fake alien invasion psyop being tested on suggestible Americans

February 13, 2023 -

Every effort is being made to paint these birthday balloons as mysterious, possibly alien craft. And it's all ridiculous. For example, the WSJ reports that a "flying object" was shot down over Canada. This object was described as a "small metallic balloon" (i.e. some little boy's birthday balloon filled with helium) that drifted to 20,000 feet altitude.

Canadian officials were breathless over their amazing military effort to "defeat" a helium-filled birthday ...

U.S. fighter jet takes down THIRD high-altitude airborne object in Canada

February 14, 2023 - balloons across the globe, a claim rejected by Beijing."

(Related: Check out this video footage of an F-18 fighter plane encountering a UFO.)Biden adds six Chinese groups suspected of connection to "spy balloon" to special "entity list"

This latest UFO to hit the ground in Canada after being shot down is "roughly the size of a car," authorities say, and smaller than the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down a week prior.

Both UFOs were taken down ...

Chinese spy balloon collected intelligence from military sites and transmitted it to Beijing in real time

April 04, 2023 -

According to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity, China was able to control the spy balloon so it could make multiple passes over several military sites.

They noted that the balloon at times even flew figure-eight formations over the military locations while transmitting the information it collected back to Beijing in real time. (Related: CCP has been creating spy balloons ...

Bond villain-like mad climate scientist and virtue signaling CEO named “Iseman” (like Iceman) wants to freeze the world by polluting the skies with sulfur particles

January 04, 2023 - balloons full of sulfur up into the stratosphere. Once there, these balloons are supposed to pop, releasing all their cooling pollution between the sun and the earth.

That pollution, we are told, reflects sunlight back into space, preventing it from providing warmth on the earth's surface. In Iseman's view, this is a smart thing to do that will prevent the planet from getting too hot. (Related: Remember when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz rips Biden for allowing Chinese balloon to fly over entire country before shooting it down

February 08, 2023 -

"So this balloon traversed 11 states, but the Pentagon says they were able to mitigate some of its impact. Do you think there is upside to the fact that this was captured this time?" Margaret Brennan, host of CBS' "Face the Nation," asked the Republican senator on Sunday.

"Well, listen, I want to start by doing something that I don’t do very often, which is commending Joe Biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. That was the right thing to do. That is ...

US officials admit tracking Chinese spy balloon since it left China; why did it take so long to stop it?

March 06, 2023 - balloons.” They added that it had solar panels that were big enough to generate the power needed for operating multiple sensors for collecting intelligence.

Department of Defense Press Secretary Brig. Gen Patrick Ryder said that China has been operating an elaborate espionage program since at least 2018, with numerous spy balloons being identified across five continents over the years.

Once the news emerged that China was flying a spy balloon across ...

Mexico bans chemtrails and geoengineering after American startup firm tried to block out sun with chemicals in Baja California Sur

January 26, 2023 - balloons at all"

In a December interview with MIT Technology Review, Iseman admitted to conducting at least two test balloon launches from a secret location back in April 2022. Since Mexico's ban on such activities, however, Iseman is now denying that he ever released "any sulfur balloons at all."

"Make Sunsets will share all information about its activities in Mexico to date (if any) with ... responsible agencies," Iseman now claims. "Make sunsets will ...

Dan Radiostyle: China is weaponizing American products against America itself

February 15, 2023 - balloons," Radiostyle stated.

It had multiple antennas to include an array likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications. It was equipped with solar panels large enough to produce the requisite power to operate multiple active intelligence collection sensors. And then quite an array of solar batteries obviously to get through the night,"

Radiostyle cited the government already has an idea of what was on the balloon, and they know exactly what ...

Biden’s plan to release mass of illegal aliens into U.S. revealed by Border Patrol

February 13, 2023 - balloons the Border Patrol uses to monitor the border will not be flying because they haven't been funded in the massive $1.7 trillion spending bill Democrats rammed through ahead of losing control of the House in January. In fact, some of them are already coming down, Fox News reported.

Biden and his regime purposely allow our country to be invaded, and Democrats in Congress are aiding and abetting it by refusing to hold him responsible. Meanwhile, China flies ...