EBL: MAGA Balloon Attack 🎈😬☀️, Nena: 99 Luftballoons 🎈😬, Fifth Dimension: Up, Up, and Away 🎈😬 and Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Spoted Over Billings, Montana? 🎈😬
Instapundit: Termites, Why?, Afraid, China building radar stations in Antarctica, Ars Technica: Why is China doing this?, and Victory Girls: Yes we should be concerned...
Breitbart: China: Shooting Down Spy Balloon an 'Obvious Overreaction'; We May Shoot Down U.S. Aircraft
Legal Insurrection: National Security this Week
Hot Air: China outraged over shoot down
NY Post: Why a spy balloon?
Bloomberg reports that the White House kept the balloon’s presence under wraps for fear of derailing the Blinken trip, until local media in Billings Montana published a picture of it on Thursday afternoon.
— Jimmy Quinn (@james_t_quinn) February 4, 2023
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Got ‘em! 🎈💥😎
— Tim McMillan (@LtTimMcMillan) February 4, 2023
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Balloon spying goes way before the cold war. The first military use of balloons in war was in 1794. Kites have been used for centuries.
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