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The latest track showed it never was over Alaska, it was launched in central/western China and moved across the Pacific and right before it reached the west coast, it did jog then went northeast toward British Columbia, then down through Canada into Montana.
Many previous reports stated the balloon was over the Aleutian Islands, which are part of Alaska. The Japanese learned this as well during WW2 (it was Russian owned).
Location: 23.7 million to 162 million miles North of Venus
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There was a post on Telegram yesterday where a supposed expert explained that it is very difficult to shoot it down. It is not so much that the US doesn't want to because of the risk of falling debris, but because they probably can't. https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/20287
Retired Air Force Lieutenant General David Deptula says otherwise. He said we do have aircraft that can take it down and that it should have been dealt with while it was still over the Pacific (as some of us had already said). He also thinks Biden* is just going to let it go after it gets to the Atlantic.
The equipment attached to it is 90 feet long. IDK what that weighs but there is risk to anyone on the ground, God forbid it landed on a cow or a person or a freeway. The ones howling that they are not shooting it down would be howling even more. So the best course of action is to err on the side of safety, particularly given the thing apparently is no threat to national security. There is no need to chance it with anyone's life or property other than machismo and misplaced patriotic fervor. Maybe now that it is about to pass out sea, they can take it out and see if can be recovered.
Wonder why Americans were sent to Afghanistan at peril to their lives based on the logic above.
Sometimes good people are put in harms way to remove bad people. We usual honor those that do.
What is Canada saying about it?
Were they upset it flew over their country?
No Trudeau was paid in advance.
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