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Old 02-09-23, 12:08 PM   #55
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cool actually we were the bad guys first! But hey! Heres a little "moby dick" up yer ass!

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Originally Posted by jimbuna
The US is considering taking action against groups linked to the Chinese government that were involved in the balloon's flight, they added.
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If nothing else, we should launch one of our own balloons and see if the Chinese "remain calm" as they are urging us to do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix We need to revamp Operation Genetrix and launch scads of balloons on the 'prevailing Westerlies' over China (from Guam or Japan?)...instructing them to "remain calm" as they have pompously done to US..
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Project Genetrix, also known as WS-119L, was a United States Air Force program designed to launch General Mills manufactured surveillance balloons over China, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union to take aerial photographs and collect intelligence. The Genetrix balloons reached altitudes of 50,000–100,000 feet (15–30 km), well above any contemporary fighter plane. Between 10 January and 6 February 1956, a total of 516 high-altitude vehicles were launched from the five different launch sites Gardermoen, Norway; Evanton, Scotland; Oberpfaffenhofen and Giebelstadt, West Germany; and Incirlik, Turkey; 54 were recovered and only 31 provided usable photographs. Numerous balloons were shot down or blown off course, and the flights led to many diplomatic protests from the target countries. MiG fighter pilots learned that at sunrise the balloons had dipped into shooting range because the balloons floated to a lower altitude. The lifting gas cooled at night and became denser, reducing lift, so the balloons descended to lower altitudes where the air was denser.Top-secret high-altitude balloon programs such as Moby Dick, Moby Dick High and 119L may account for many of the UFO sightings starting around the mid-20th century. The U-2 spy plane was later developed to replace the Genetrix balloons. The Soviets recovered many of these balloons and their temperature-resistant and radiation-hardened film would later be used in the Luna 3 probe to capture the first images of the far side of the Moon.
Considering that Chinese 'junior pilots' are currently harassing our recon aircraft flying well outside Chinese territorial waters in international waters often flying within feet using jet turbulance to intimidate our aircrews, this would be an inexpensive retaliation and expose the Chinese 'double standard for "remaining calm" And, it'd be fun to see what they've got of their new generation aircraft that can shoot down a balloon above 62,000 ft! That would be useful intelligence indeed!
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