fourlocks wrote:
What a complete farce promoted by the media. First off, it's a balloon and its path is uncontrolled, subject to the jet stream. Second, the Chinese have equal or better satellite cameras than ours that can read a license plate with ease and they constantly pass over the U.S. Third, the balloon likely never even passed over an actual missile silo and it did, it wouldn't show anything worthwhile.
I suppose it would make bad press if the military just said, "nothing to worry about" but they still downplayed it as much as they could. It's the media that's keeping this in the headlines.
What a complete farce promoted by the media. Firs... (
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Excitement about a BALLOON! Really? Is this the early 1900's and not year 2023? I think the joke is on us.