We NOW get to read follow up media pieces that back up President Biden ‘s revelation that absent the Chienese Spy ballons?
There are a LOT of ballons from a LOT of outfits floating around…
NORAD and the Space Force are now gonna have a BIGGER headache….
The radars that probably filtered out all the harmless ballons are now gonna be reporting them….
This probably means that Air Force pilots are gonna get more practice time ‘intercepting’ ballons….
I hope this does NOT mean those pilots will expected to ‘shoot down’ everyone wasting thosands of dollars of missile’s on ballons….
Below is about maybe one of them?
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.
The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.
But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.
There are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts’ community, which combines ham radio and high-altitude ballooning into a single, relatively affordable hobby.
“I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,” says Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS), a Silicon Valley company that makes purpose-built pico balloons for hobbyists, educators and scientists….
image….A middle school class learns how to use a Scientific Balloon Solutions pico balloon. ….Scientific Balloon Solutions