BREAKING: US fighter jet shot down the China spy balloon – ‘it’s falling down’

Chinese Spy Balloon Raises Concerns of Possible Biowarfare and Bombing

The recent shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon on the East Coast is a cause for concern due to past incidents involving the Japanese. In 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb was discovered in Oregon and a Japanese balloon bomb was launched in Hawaii in 1942, indicating that the Chinese spy balloon could have been carrying biological warfare agents or explosives. The potential threat posed by these balloons is of utmost importance, and all necessary precautions should be taken to ensure the safety of citizens.

Flight-tracking sites showed military aircraft along trajectory of Chinese spy balloon

On Wednesday, a huge balloon thought to be from China was seen over Billings, Montana. US officials are tracking it as it flies over the continental United States.

The balloon was visible in the St. Louis area from around 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday.

We’re told it’s the size of three greyhound buses.

A lot of people were on edge Friday as the National Weather Service in Kansas City was getting reports at around noon of a high-altitude balloon visible on the horizon. They say the object is not a US National Weather Service balloon. It is currently traveling southeast a 60,000 feet with 75 mph winds.

We now have a much better track on the balloon’s track and location thanks to some recent reports. It was seen due east of Columbia, Missouri and southeast of Macon. Based on this information, the balloon will fly directly over the St. Louis area from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. It was visible from a great distance because the balloon is so high in the atmosphere. This is an estimate based on elevation and airspeed.

“The idea that Communist China has a spy balloon headed towards Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri right now — the home of the Stealth Bomber — is absolutely unbelievable. No American should accept this. I don’t,” states Missouri US Senator Eric Schmitt.

Meteorologist Chris Higgins produced this forecast using the HYSPLIT model of the object’s location using the last two approximate locations of the balloon sightings, near Kansas City and Columbia.

China claims that the balloon was a weather research “airship” that had blown off course. The Pentagon rejected that out of hand — and China’s contention that the balloon, about the size of two school buses, was not being used for surveillance and had only limited navigational ability.

The balloon was first seen over sensitive military sites in Montana. By midday, it was over the heartland of the central United States, moving east. Officials said it was likely to stay in U.S. airspace for several days. Whiteman Air Force Base is located in central Missouri. It is a part of the US strategic nuclear deterrence program.

Pentagon tested mass surveillance balloons across the US back in 2019

The US military is conducted wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal.

Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons were launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois (sound familiar).

Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to “provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats”, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company.

China is Readying an Atmospheric Chinese Nuclear Explosion that could take out the Power Grid as we get closer to a full-scale war with vulnerabilities to an EMP attack

Chinese researchers urged their government to increase the country’s readiness for defending against a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. Just over a year ago, a group of American researchers released a report warning that China possessed the capability to conduct an EMP attack against the United States. Military and non-proliferation experts are worried about the growing temptation by nuclear-armed countries to engage in a first-strike EMP attack using nuclear weapons that, while avoiding direct casualties, could prove devastating to electric grids and electronic devices from smartwatches to supercomputers.

The enormous potential of an electromagnetic pulse released by the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon has been recognized for some time. In 1962, the U.S. conducted an atmospheric test of a 1.45 megaton thermonuclear weapon, code-named Starfish Prime, 250 miles above Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean. Over 1,000 miles away, the blast knocked out electricity supply in parts of Hawaii and disrupted telephone service for a period of time. In addition, radiation from the test damaged several satellites in low-Earth orbit, taking them out of service. Decades later, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack determined as early as 2008 that the U.S. would face catastrophic consequences from an EMP attack given its growing dependence on electronics of all forms and complete reliance upon the electrical grid.

And yet, until now, government and industry risk assessments about EMP attacks and their effects on the power grid have been based on oversimplified models of the solid Earth that assume zero variation in depth or composition. But, as it turns out, the actual effects on the power grid of an electromagnetic pulse in outer space are strongly determined by the three-dimensional distribution of rocks beneath our feet.