Chinese surveillance balloon over Montana?

[3855WIN]

Kinda makes me think things of this nature have been floating around awhile and someone just now noticed so the gov is blowing them up so that someone doesn’t spot them again

I just retired from 33 years of air traffic. I believe this is mostly new stuff.

 

[Nameless Range]

 

[Oak]

And another one today.

I wonder if the seeming increase in these things is the result of a heightened awareness to stuff in the sky, so what we are seeing is an artificially amplified signal, not really respective to what has been the state of affairs historically.

Is it pseudo-hysteria or an actual increase in the prevalence of things floating over us that we don’t want doing so? The lack of actual meaningful information being released by the bigwigs makes me lean toward the former.

US military shoots down unidentified flying object over Great Lakes region; same object spotted over Montana

The U.S. military on Sunday 'decommissioned' an unidentified flying object in the Great Lakes region of Michigan, U.S. lawmakers have confirmed.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Southern Elk]

 

[crock239]

Just getting back to the US after 10 days of international travel..has been interesting to see these stories pop on international media over the last week.

Also now realize that my brother, myself, and my buddy saw one of these "spy balloons" while elk hunting in CO last September.

Sat there eating lunch on the mountain and looking at it with binos for a while talking about if it was weather balloon or what...

 

[Oak]

 

[Gellar]

Please let it be the aliens to take me away from here.

You do know they are going to probe you?

 

[Nick87]

 

[gouch]

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If China is smart, that's what their next balloon will look like.

 

[Nick87]

 

[3855WIN]

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They didn’t need enhanced radar to have a pilot report of the object. These thing’s certainly don’t seem to have the hyper speed function we’ve always heard about.

 

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[3855WIN]

Hell of a shot.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1625279548152549378

 

[2rocky]

 

[Rainer]

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[2rocky]

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[1896]

.257 STW. Hammer bullet. Enough said.

 

[theat]

Looks like they did "attempt" to shoot down the first balloon over Montana when it was first discovered.

Pentagon intended to shoot down Chinese balloon over Montana's Beartooth Mountains

Several Montana and U.S. military officials told the Billings Gazette the balloon was traveling above 65,000 feet, which is too high for the jets to reach.

billingsgazette.com