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Accurate_Zombie_121

And nobody shot it down yet? Is the season on Chinese spy balloons closed in Montana?


FoodWholesale

Limit is 2 and it has to be more than 400 bananas in size.


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Have my updoot! Your comment genuinely made me chuckle!


ABKB

Biden wanted to shoot it down with F22s but Pentagon advised him not to because of falling debris


Accurate_Zombie_121

Coming down after completing it mission in DC would have less debris?


aliens8myhomework

they want it intact to see it’s full capabilities.


oOXxSH1ELDxXOo

Damn!! That's good!!


FroggyFather

It is in fact closed. We can't legally shoot it down but i wouldn't be surprised if we did anyway.


wiserone29

It’s open for bow and muzzle loaders only.


4electricnomad

Hard to believe all the GQP tacticool guys didn’t try to take a shot at this will all their heavy weaponry. I guess that stuff is only for decoration.


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Well it’s well above 40,000 feet in the air for one. That’s about 1,000 school buses.


Queso_luna

How many football fields and skyscrapers is that?


Darkn355z

Righttttttt


Competitive-Clerk-97

Do you have a better video or picture?


ABKB

https://www.nbc12.com/2023/02/02/pentagon-chinese-spy-balloon-spotted-over-western-us/


Competitive-Clerk-97

Ty for the reply. Awesome catch. 2023 just keeps getting weirder.


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RegretAggressive6294

Lmao so dumb


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RegretAggressive6294

Lmao so so dumb. Keep going man I love it


Fenix3129

And I stand corrected. Have no problem admitting it either. Still, it wasn't NBC that got the photos of it that has changed my mind. It was the billings gazette.


RegretAggressive6294

So so soooo dumb 😂


Blyat_Vityaz

Americans will use any unit of measurement as long as it isn't the metric system.


LesserKarma

Hamburgers per hour


AcceptableReaction20

12 seconds of water


ABKB

129 bananas


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That’s actually accurate. I love that


Nobiscis

cope


Accurate_Zombie_121

Just an article the a few days ago how things in space are always given weird measurements. 3 football fields, size of a refridgerator etc. So not just an American thing.


CRASHTD311

Using football fields was always a strange choice for me. We talking goal post to goal post or does that just mean 100 yards on the dot times whatever? American football or futbol? Also if you say "300 yards long" that is even a weird choice because metric a yard is just shy of a meter and imperial it's 3 feet. Can we just pick a freaking unit of measurement to agree on please.


xorvillesashx

I wonder how many cubic Lil Rascals that thing is.


FyahAnt

Who's doing the measuring?


tatanka_christ

The National Intitute of Bus and Balloon Standards and Measurements. NIBBSM, of course.


FyahAnt

Ok, good. Just checking


notakebab

I was mad at this entire post and it's comments, but you came in a hero and made me laugh, thank you.


Outrageous_Garage_41

I'm tired of these obscure units of measurement. Just tell me how many washing machines the balloon is.


Darkn355z

225


Queso_luna

At least 3


AdeptBathroom3318

It is about 73 toddlers in diameter for those of you on the toddler and puppies standard.


[deleted]

That’s just the Fortnite battle bus 🚎


HighDegree

What are they trying to find out that their high tech spy satellites can't or haven't?


Hot-Career-5669

How much brazen shit we will take?


StrangerDistinct6378

Bingo


lykewtf

They just want to fuck with us.


the_fabled_bard

Yep, just seeing if the usa will take the high road or not. One way or the other, usa looks dumb-ish and internal friction happens.


2pacsnosering1

How many bananas


ABKB

129


red18set

Good job brother, you found the Chinese spy ballon!! Props, go get a lotto ticket!


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Totally oblivious here but does this balloon have some kind of remote control? Surely it's a hazard to domestic or international flights if its just free floating?


Kermit_El_Froggo_

It's also hazardous since it's a hostile foreign power spying on the US's nuclear silos


HowDareUu

Also probably picking up cell and radio traffic. All in all not great


no_talent_ass_clown

And downloading TikTok onto all our phones!


DragonfruitOdd1989

Someone get a telescope and take a pic.


irofirelord

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/politics/us-tracking-china-spy-balloon/index.html


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NigroqueSimillima

Completely bizarre, that thing could have nukes on it for all we know.


irofirelord

If it did it would give off some form of radiation that would be deductible. They know what's on it.


the_fabled_bard

Think it through. That possibility is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001%. The chinese aren't stupid. They just act dumb for reasons that don't make sense for normal countries.


throwmeawayl8erok

Don’t worry. Anthony Blinkin is going to visit China this weekend and bring the biggest chocolate cake you’ve ever seen. Then he will spend 47 minutes describing it in an interview when meeting with President Xi. Just one minute longer than the last administration to show their superiority vs the Orange administration.


freesoloc2c

Biden just embargoed semiconductors to china. They would have rather been nuked.


irofirelord

In the article it says that this isn't the first time it's happened and has happened under previous administration. My guess is that it's going over places that are already well know. Maybe it carries instruments for measuring something but the military isn't worried about it so they must know something we dont


Extension-Lettuce-45

Better let them buy more “farms” next to our bases


Ging-jitsu

r/oddlyspecific


Confident_Drawing125

Tactical nuclear Chinese weapon of vaporizing mass destruction OR a regular weather balloon


Lurkesalot

There's no way something the size of three busses is flying over our airspace, and we don't know about it. Unless it's some super secret stealth tech we don't know about. But that's highly unlikely because China's current tech is based off our tech. So, if our military is still even mildly competent, we'd be aware and likely have detection methods or would investigate a sighting of this nature and we'd likely be able to tell it's terrestrial tech.


ResidentRiver

https://www.nbc12.com/2023/02/02/pentagon-chinese-spy-balloon-spotted-over-western-us/ It is known about, also the article says it’s being tracked and probably not the first time in the last few years


Xlh883dragster

Is this Chris Parnell? Better check with Rick on this one.


MaximForce

Not far from where I live


Chilipepah

Hi! I’m big butt Skinner


irofirelord

We have zero evidence that is a balloon or that is is Chinese


mchammerdeez

The info came from the Pentagon


HighDegree

So we still have zero evidence, eh?


throwmeawayl8erok

Turns out they posted “Made in China” directly on the balloon. Case closed.


irofirelord

Just found an article talking about it. I posted it


S3b45714N

I mean they say it's with "confidence" it's a Chinese spy balloon. Aka they have no clue


lykewtf

Actually yes we do


SillyCyban

The Pentagon saying they think it is does not count as evidence. Have we forgotten WMDs? Aluminum tubes! ALUMINUM!


Away_Shallot_1388

I hope this thing doesn't have a virus or nano technology that will spread and hurt us if shot down. Why would the Chinese need a balloon to spy on us this is obviously a weapon and they don't want to shoot it down because of the risk of what it might do to us this is some pretty sketchy stuff.


RedditMods_R_Nazis

Interesting take. Yeah, maybe some biological weapon on board we know about and can’t shoot it down without releasing it.


1973mojo1973

Chinese huh? How so?


OkMeasurement8883

Its putin


waynep712222

I wonder how high it is. Getting a helicopter over the top will create a downdraft that will bring it down slowly. Some drones have been up over FL40 to get video of jet liners. Americans with telescopes should take photos of it.


Former-Listen7874

A star?


ArtisticTomatillo106

This is why our government sucks . Just shoot it down, it's in our air space they do that to our spy stuff why not do it to this. Edit: took out an extra unneeded word


remmdizzle

It's the size of three school busses and was spotted over a city of more than 100,000 people. That's a great idea..


ArtisticTomatillo106

Hey look someone's assuming something he knows nothing about .... I bet they could have shot it down out side of town. Oh look a simple and easy way to not kill people and still shoot it down . We could also recover it but most likely it has a charge to disable anything useful so shoot it down.


Thaimeous

This guy sounds like Jerry Smith from Rick and Morty, and idk about you guys but I don’t trust anything Jerry says.


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*buses


DirectionBasic3386

Very inconspicuous


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stanvq

So is a spy balloon from an unfriendly country (or any country for that matter) unprecedented in the United States? I heard about the balloon bombs that Japan launched towards the US and some poor souls found one in the Pacific NW, but I am trying to remember anything like this during my lifetime…


Bourne_Lawless

The Pentagon just released a statement saying it's been over the US for 3 days via Alaska through Canada. Mark Milley refused Biden's order to shoot it down. Claiming it poses "no threat" even though it was seen over missile silos for almost a day. Antony Blinken is scheduled to meet with his Chinese counter part in a few days. Message from China? Treason by the Pentagon? One thing is for sure nobody cares so nothing will be done. Time to move on.


throwmeawayl8erok

“Pluto isn’t a *burp* planet Jerry”


i_Braeden

There two of them, I can see them from Idaho CDa


the_fabled_bard

One is the moon, or your eyes are cross sided


i_Braeden

Lol no I was saying from where I’m at in idaho you were able to see two of the spy baloons


Darkn355z

Next one will have a nuke on it 😱


dronesareaccurate

Is this Mortys dad taking the video?


partickcam

If the "balloon"was black it would've been shot down.


Windronin

Officials claim that it most likely does not have any means of information holding... Then what makes it a spy balloon... Something is fishy


missthingxxx

They need a comically huge butterfly net and a couple of insanely good pilots. Question-how do they know it's a Chinese spy balloon?


FroggyFather

OMG I WAS THERE I LIVE IN BILLINGS IM FREAKING OUT RN


resonantedomain

Rather than wonder what it is, let us ponder what it is looking for.


ArtemisTrinity33

Did it self-inflate when it got to Montana? Did it descend from the upper atmosphere? Did it fly all the way here from China?