Sorry to pop your balloon, but.......

[Ruination]

That is exactly why I wanted to see what it’s payload held. High res cameras aren’t my guess.

For sure.

Maybe it's why they waited for it to be over water, but I doubt it.

I trust our military and intelligence community.

I just think they were trying to prove the world was round.

 

[nobands]

I think they was just taking a look at some of their investments and scoping out their next ag land purchases.
It's pretty much what any investor would do.

 

[Ruination]

 

[Downwind]

There will be 1 modern day fighter pilot with a Balloon kill credit painted on thier plane.....lol

 

[stevena198301]

I refer to him as “not Casio-Kid”. We have two hilarious Matt Mitchell’s round these parts.

 

[HaydenHunter]

Seriously. What information do you think they obtained 12 miles in the air that couldn't have been done with a satellite.

You guys just look for reasons to be mad.

Agreed on the point that it would not trump satellite images.

Where we disagree is with it's presence in the first place. I think it was a provocation and a test to see if the US had resolve (also known as balls).

 

[Ruination]

Agreed on the point that it would not trump satellite images.

Where we disagree is with it's presence in the first place. I think it was a provocation and a test to see if the US had resolve (also known as balls).

Maybe. But that'd be pretty dumb.

It proves nothing other than we didn't think it was an actual threat.

 

[grahler]

It proves nothing other than we didn't think it was an actual threat.

More like we were so incompetent as to not detect it then realized it could potentially release a bioweapon so we were too scared to take it down over the land.


We were scared. We didn’t detect it before it was over our people.

 

[grahler]

 

[blacktail]

My son in Myrtle Beach sent me the video. It was way visible to them. The shoot down and all. Epic.