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originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Bluntone22
The person who took the video/photo said a jet flew over really fast and a couple minutes later was the smoking debris descending.
If our military is correct, this must be the second balloon that trailed the first one. Our top military brass said the leading balloon was over Kansas earlier today. (They might lie to us...or not be good at geography, due to so much "woke" training.)
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: putnam6
I first saw the video on Twitter.
When I made my post I searched for the story and just used the daily mail site.
Don’t know much more than that.
48 min ago
Northern Command coordinating with NASA on debris field if balloon were shot down, official says
From CNN's Haley Britzky
The US Northern Command is coordinating with NASA to determine what the debris field would be if the balloon floating above the United States were to be shot down, according to a defense official.
RC-135U Combat Sent
Mission
The RC-135U Combat Sent provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information to the president, secretary of defense, Department of Defense leaders, and theater commanders. Locating and identifying foreign military land, naval and airborne radar signals, the Combat Sent collects and minutely examines each system, providing strategic analysis for warfighters. Collected data is also stored for further analysis by the joint warfighting and intelligence communities. The Combat Sent deploys worldwide and is employed in peacetime and contingency operations.
Features
All RC-135U aircraft are equipped with an aerial refueling system, giving it an unlimited flying range. Communication equipment includes high frequency, very high frequency, and ultra high frequency radios. The navigation equipment incorporates ground navigation radar, a solid state Doppler system, and an inertial navigation system that merges celestial observations and Global Positioning System data. Although the flight crew stations are similarly configured, the reconnaissance equipment is slightly unique within each airframe.
The aircraft are identified by their distinctive antennae arrays on the "chin" and wing tips, large cheek fairings, and extended tail.
Crew composition includes two pilots, one navigator, two airborne systems engineers, and a minimum of 10 electronic warfare officers, or "Ravens," and six or more electronic, technical, and area specialists.
Background
There are only two Combat Sent aircraft in the Air Force inventory and both are assigned to the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Neb. The RC-135U aircraft are manned by Air Combat Command crews from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron and the 97th Intelligence Squadron (of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency). The Combat Sent is composed of a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf and proprietary hardware and software. Its current configuration allows for both manual and automatic analysis of electronic signals. By combining manual systems with the Automatic Electronic Emitter Locating System, Ravens and intelligence specialists can simultaneously locate, identify, and analyze multiple electronic signals
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: xuenchen
Oh just a normal coincidence 😎
Or a disaster being covered up !!!!!😎
Maybe the balloon zapped one of our jets with a solar powered laser.