U.S. officials are monitoring a balloon of unknown origin that floated into Hawaiian airspace over the weekend, but they reportedly have no plans to shoot it down.
This from westernjournal.com.
According to NBC, a spokesman for the Indo-Pacific Command said:
Three F-22s fighter jets were sent to investigate Friday ‘and visually identified a spherical object.’
He said:
We monitored the transit of the object and assessed that it posed no threat.
A Pentagon statement said the balloon was floating at 36,000 feet:
[W]ith no indication that it was maneuvering or being controlled by a foreign or adversarial actor.
The balloon did not transit directly over defense critical infrastructure or other U.S. Government sensitive sites, nor did it pose a military or physical threat to people on the ground.
CBS quoted a Defense Department spokesman as saying:
[T]he U.S. military and Federal Aviation Administration will continue to track the object.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the balloon at Monday’s press briefing, but she referred those reporters to the Defense Department, according to the report.
NBC said “it’s not clear” whether the object was a weather balloon or some other device and quoted a military official as saying the U.S. could still shoot the object down if it nears land.
Politico reported:
By Monday evening, the balloon had left U.S. airspace and territorial waters around Hawaii.
Those parameters were developed after a highly publicized event—when a Chinese spy balloon entered U.S. airspace in February.
In an April 3 report, the network quoted three current or former U.S. officials as saying that:
China was able to control the balloon, so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time.
According to the report:
That spy mission seems to have involved collecting electronic signals from weapons systems or communications from base personnel.
CBS reported:
That act angered the Chinese government, causing a diplomatic confrontation that prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a planned trip to China.
Three other “mysterious flying objects” were shot down over North America around that time. CBS quoted National Security Council’s John Kirby as saying those unmanned objects did not appear to be self-propelled and did not appear to be sending detectable communications signals.
Final thoughts: What do we believe anymore? Certainly not the unconstitutionally installed government nor the colluding mass propaganda media.
