The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll Find

Re:The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll ... by colpabar on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:24PM (#34792692)

I ask this question in good faith and out of pure ignorance - how do we know the first one we shot down was chinese?

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Re:The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll ... by gsdofthewoods on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:28PM (#34792765)

China's government said it originated in China, but it denied that it intentionally flew over the US for surveillance purposes: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/china-tells-us-to-remain-coo...

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Re:The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll ... by blamazon on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:32PM (#34792831)

I saw an analysis by a meteorologist on Twitter that used a NOAA wind model and the publicly known position of the balloon (when it was above Montana) to backtrack a likely path, which ended up with an origin in China:

https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/162132105562836582...

The same person posted a similar analysis of an object shot down over Alaska that suggested it could have been a National Weather Service balloon: (or trying hard to pretend to be one)

https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/162416175081471182...

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Re:The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll ... by hoppyhoppy2 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:23PM (#34796234)

The New York Times is reporting:

>In a sign of how closely the United States had been monitoring the balloon surveillance program directed by the Chinese military recently, U.S. officials said in interviews that they began tracking the spy balloon as it lifted off from Hainan Island in southern China in late January.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/us/politics/ufo-spy-ballo...

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