In the videos I’ve seen, you could clearly see “stuff” (my arm chair 5 star general guess? Mostly solar panels) raining down around the rest of the structure. From 60,000ft you can have a massive debris field, most people don’t seem to be thinking about that.
We have equipment that doesn’t have a real ceiling but it’s few and far between
What important secret US data could a balloon gather at 86,000 feet that a satellite couldn't? The only advantage between the two is a balloon is in the atmosphere which means it's only better for measuring data related to the atmosphere.
I don't know, but what I've read is the defense department has some very impressive satellites in orbit that can take some pretty impressive pictures. It can also tell them how the US would react, etc. use your imagination. This thing crossed the entire country before we took it out. So depending on what type of equipment that balloon had on it and what it flew over God, China, and the Defense department will know what they gathered. Us Bitoger's won't, but we can guess, speculate, and argue over it.
How do you know we weren't allowing it so we could collect data too?
Who said anything about weight? it is as WIDE as three buses. AJ on his Friday show said this is a test run for a EMP weapon deployment. Balloons can set off a just the right atmospheric conditions much easier than a missile . ... then he said if the Chinese have them, "you be sure" the US does!
Yes that's exactly it, goof. A playground?? Bit dramatic don't ya think??
They could of had the highest resolution in memory since that removes the many iterations of data flow …
My guess is that it wasn't as easy as you believe it was to figure out where that would land and/or its course didn't take it over unpopulated areas. As far as I can tell they shot it down the moment it was over ocean and safe to do so.
They're not going to ask residents opinions or ask for permission. If the military or the administration felt the risk was severe enough, they'd shoot it down over Chicago or New York and deal with the consequences.
There are farm/ ranches in the middle of no where Montana. Just an FYI....
Military: Where's the Raytheon guys ?
We were able to watch the fighter planescircling it from the front of our soon to be new home in NC. It was wild. Photos don’t do justice to the “scale” of it.
My brother and sister in law were able to put their lawn chairs on their front driveway and watch it get shot down, including the deep boom of the missile explosion which they described as a few seconds later.
I was close by but distracted at the time and missed that part
The bottom photo where the two jet trails intersect, if you can expand the photo you will see a white dot to the top right of that intersection which is the balloon.
I wish I had my Nikon with me, I almost took it because we were checking on our home construction, but had to do with the cell phone camera. I’ll go through my photos later see if I come up with a better one, once I get out of bed LOL
My friend collided with another fighter jet some 10yrs ago. Both ejected, planes disintegrated going down. Part of an airplane hits some old lady on some farm in the middle of nowhere. Her arm had to be amputated. Next closest house was some 25km away.
