US says Chinese spy balloon downed in February did not collect information. Yet, Biden was referring to it as a spy balloon just this month.
Craft was shot down by US military off Atlantic coast on president’s orders earlier this year
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Can’t say I believe that one bit. With how small transmitters can be these days, why wouldn’t it have one? Sounds to me like damage control. Not a whole lot of details in the article anyway.
Jesus Christ you people are just lusting for war.
I don’t want a war with China, that would be awful. I’m just trying to be realistic about it. Seems silly to go through the trouble to make a surveillance craft like that and it not even have the capability to beam back any data.
Data was obviously transmitted. Weather data, going by recent cyber attacks, there are a plethora of ways where it's easier to get data.
I’m just gonna be open minded about it and not jump to conclusions. I could see the US gov making it into a big deal for reasons and I could see it being a balloon to take pics of bases, etc on the ground. Both seem like logical outcomes. I mean it could be a weather balloon but I sorta doubt it based on what I know about weather balloons (I’m an amateur weather nerd). But I could be wrong! I’ll admit that. Gotta keep an open mind.
You do realize China has satellites?
Of course. And you realize balloons can have an advantage over satellites in certain situations?
If balloons were a good way to spy on countries we'd see US balloons canvas the globe by now.
