Spy balloon witness thought it might have been a star or UFO

a reply to: mirageman


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Chase Doak is literally world famous now. Isn't life funny? Dude is jus chillin, notices something in the sky and films, 24 hrs later he's world famous

originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
I guess the shocker for some is the look of the instruments package……it’s not the typical tethered sling hanging train type of what is usually seen with high altitude balloons.

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Are those black panels supposed to have been a solar power panel array?

If so, it's a very odd placement for a PV array; under the shade of what, in that photo, appears to be a somewhat translucent, if not opaque, balloon envelope.

Foreshortening maybe making it appear that the array is much closer to the balloon than it actually is, but I don't see any appreciable distance between the envelope and the payload.

Maybe those are some kind of SIGINT sensors?

So how is this thing supposed to have been powered?

a reply to: Observer19

Batteries don't work well in the cold, and it is very, very cold up in the stratosphere: below 0° F cold in fact.

And this vehicle was supposedly flying at that altitude for days.


My concern, Completely Unsupported By ANY Facts at this time, is that the power source may have been radioactive - similar to the nuclear thermo batteries used on space missions.


Might also explain how the military was able to track the craft.

And why they did not want to risk shooting it down over land.

Welp ……the Chinese are at it again! Only this time they’ve camouflaged their intel balloon with an outer balloon……



Who would want to shoot down America’s, adorable, Kung Fu Panda???

How sneaky could they be?

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Apparently they've been spying on Chris Mellon too.

originally posted by: mirageman


A necessary decision. Imagine what could happen if say a rancher found the wreckage and.....oh never mind.

Remember to put a note in your diary for 2053 when the first claims of recovered alien bodies will be bandied about.

a reply to: mirageman

Source: Previous Chinese spy balloons over US were classified as UFOs: report

I read this……

"Balloons account for many of the unexplained incidents the Navy and other military services have tracked in recent years. The previous incidents, like other unexplained events, were handed over to a Pentagon task force charged with investigating UFOs and other aerial phenomena," The Times wrote in the story, which was published on Tuesday (Feb. 7). "As the Pentagon and intelligence agencies stepped up efforts over the past two years to find explanations for many of those incidents, officials reclassified some events as Chinese spy balloons."

And I’m reminded of this…..



Could this be what LuLu have real meant beyond the Batman balloon?

Balloons thought to be UFO’s and were unidentified as Chinese sourced.

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