From here – three years 5 months ago
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US | US military | The Guardian
“Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US. The new balloons could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods.
The new balloons could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods. Exclusive: the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow.”
“The US military is conducting 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 are being 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.
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.”
More coverage here:
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons over Midwest, report says (usatoday.com)
Probably just another coincidence, right?
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Well discovered PH. There may well be a chinese element too. Remember that the majority of masks & gowns were chinese. Particularly the majority of sub standard ones the fcUKd shelled out Mi££ions & Mega Mi££ions on.
Why not sub contract the balloon manufacture to china?
Oh what tangled web's we weave. The one thing I have observed is that if we can conceive what government can and will do, they will. every government has the same agenda, the power and control of its people. power over any country they can. All the cloke and dagger games they play confirm, in my eyes anyway just how little actual intelligence they possess. Subversion and undermining a countries security have been the goals in every war from the first war between tribes that wanted what its neighbor has. to have the "upper hand" No politician, no country is guiltless when it comes to spying. It has become which country can gain the upper hand to make out of it or any event as much media coverage where they look like the good guy. In government today do we have any? China or Russia and the little mouse trying to roar will use the latest information they can muster. As I said on another post that taking down a balloon isnt a high level operation. government, especially ones that have low popularity ratings turn to showmanship to boost their rating. Demands from the other party and the ever popular peoples demands to "shoot down" a balloon. A danger that should have been discounted as more threat than the balloon itself. After all I would want to take it down intact to see what the maker was looking at. Instead we saw them all looking like the hero protecting the country. a chore our politicians have had little successes, and not with enforcing real laws. I would like to know who and what actions were taken. who made the decision's to shoot it down over the Oceans that lower a successful recovery. Yea, good choice people. what are they hiding. Dont insult me by saying they are not hiding anything. Well I wanted to see if I could match governments talent of saying a lot without actually saying anything. how did I do? ---------- I, Grampa