Chinese Spy Balloon - Their Version of Project Mogul

 

I have been asked to provide some commentary on the Chinese Spy Balloon. George Noory mentioned just prior to my weekly segment on Coast-to-Coast AM, and I called it the Chinese Project Mogul.

My first thought was to accept the idea that this was an errant weather balloon because there are more technologically advanced methods of spying such as satellites and high-flying aircraft that skirt the edges of outer space. Why send a balloon if you have that capability? Besides, aren’t balloons driven by the winds. Then we learn that this balloon has some steering capabilities, so the claim that it was blown off course seems to be something of a, well, lie.

Now we learn that this isn’t the first time that this has happened but apparently is the first time that the media, both professional and social, learned about it. This time we all know about it. And we learn that there is another balloon sailing above South America, which suggests that the Chinese are either inept in their balloon technology or they are being less than candid about it.

Since the balloon is over US airspace, I want to know the real reason that it hasn’t been shot down. I want to know the real the reason that if they, meaning that our military and our government leaders, believe there is a spy mission aspect to it, why hasn’t it been destroyed. We’re told that there is a worry about injuries to those on the ground. When was the last time that you heard that pieces of a balloon, falling from the sky, had injured anyone? How many true weather balloons are launched in this country daily and how many have dropped on people?

Without filling this with a lot of comments from government officials and military officers, I will note simply, that many seem to share my desire to see the thing shot out of the sky. I would have initiated that the moment it crossed into US airspace over Alaska. If it is an errant weather balloon, then no one in China would care. If it was some sort of spy craft, then that evidence could be presented to the UN with a warning that all other such objects will be shot down.

And, I have to wonder if some of the UAP sightings by our military on maneuvers weren’t seeing these “weather” balloons. Maybe that is one of the reasons that we have both a rather poorly written and less than informative unclassified version of the UAP report while Congress gets a classified version. This could be an issue of national security… but now all that is out in the open.

What it boils down to is that a foreign power has deployed (either intentionally or accidently) a device over the United States. It is allowed to drift (steer?) over some of our military facilities without any real response by our government. We won’t shoot it down because people on the ground might be injured (I’m sorry, but seems like the dumbest excuse ever), and this isn’t the first time that this has happened.

And I wonder what the Chinese response would be in similar circumstances. Would they dither around, worried about injuring people on the ground, or would they take aggressive action against this violation of their airspace? And if we shot the thing out of the sky, would we now have to admit that we’ve allowed them to spy on us using balloons in the past?

The important point here is that there is a Chinese balloon drifting over the United States and we know it’s there. We believe it has a spy capability, but we take no action against it. We worry about falling debris injuring people on the ground, but you have to wonder about that… I mean, there are great parts of this country where there are virtually no one to be injured. Why hasn’t action been taken? So that this won’t blow up into an international incident? That ship has already sailed, or should I say, that balloon has already been launched.

And not back to my regularly scheduled postings…

PS: The AP story mentioned Roswell, Project Mogul, and the excuse that Mogul was to detect Soviet missile launches. Other than the fact that Mogul was not responsible for the debris located by Mack Brazel, that Mogul was designed to detect Soviet experiments with atomic weapons, and that Flight No. 4 had been cancelled, that little bit of information about Mogul seemed to be almost accurate and totally irrelevant.