Now that the #ChineseBalloon is making some headlines again, is good to share what I wrote back in march on Weekly Balloon News # 11 - Chinese balloon edition

What kind of balloon it was? • Not an isolated incident, and not a "fleet" of spy balloons • Previous sightings. Connecting the dots • The first downing using missiles? Yes and No • The "secret" Chinese balloon base • Science on the edge of reality • The "weather balloon" explanation 70 years later

https://stratocat.substack.com/p/weekly-balloon-news-11-chinese-balloon

China appears to have suspended spy balloon program after February shootdown, US intel believes

Via CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/china-spy-balloon-program-us-intelligence

#ChineseBalloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware to #Spy on #Americans
Blasted from the sky in February, Preliminary U.S. findings show the craft collected photos and videos but didn’t appear to transmit them, officials say.
https://archive.ph/M22Uj #china

Just segmented DAPI-stained nuclei using deep learning, what an overkill - feels like popping a balloon with fighter jets! Wait, did we just do that? #deeplearning #segmentation #microscopy #chineseballoon

#OpenSourceBoffinChallenge:
Where is this above the "Central Continental U.S."? An oxbow is in the near background, as is a street grid and some farmland.
#ChineseBalloon

The first #chineseballoon they shot down was 200'; that's a pretty big target. Makes you wonder about these pilots.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-canada-objects-huron-missile-1.6747631

Any more #ChineseBalloon sightings lately? We seem to be a lull... I'm not the type to ascribe 7-d chess to anyone, but the People's Liberation Army Army Air Force (PLAAF) or the CCP or whomever seem have been caught flat-footed. A bizarre episode all around.

I have a receiver, which got the transponder signal off of one of those fighters that's been flying overhead on landing approach to Moffett Field (KNUQ).

It's a Northrop F-5E Tiger II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5

It's registered to this defense contractor:
https://tacticalairsupport.com/

They look like they're equipped with wingtip air-to-air missiles.

The TV news reports that the US has shot down 3 more objects like the #ChineseBalloon , but not around here.

Funny how all those #Republicans talking about the #ChineseBalloon invasion of our airspace don't talk much about the #Russian invasion of our elections in 2016 and afterwards.

These stories of Chinese balloons, they’re being blown up out of all proportion. #chineseballoon

Dash Dobrofsky: “Can’t they just give Biden the credit he deserves. He shot down a balloon, shot down a UFO, tricked MAGA into verbally supporting Social Security, and added 500k jobs — all in the same week. He’s crushing the game. Media should be bowing down.” #UFOs #ChineseBalloon #Biden #SocialSecurity #500KJobs

This is the most detailed photo of the alleged Chinese spy balloon. Assuming it's a spying device ( and it looks like one ) we can make a few guesses.

#SpyBalloon
#ChineseBalloon
#SpyCraft

What is NOT being said about the #ChineseBalloon is that it suggests China's spy satellite technology is FAR worse than anyone knew, forcing them to rely on old-fashioned balloons for surveillance. #ThisWeek

No #FnS, Biden didn't shoot down the two most recent balloons "sooner" b/c of "backlash over the delay in shooting down the #ChineseBalloon."

They shot it down "sooner" b/c they DISCOVERED it sooner b/c they are now LOOKING for them (3 balloons crossed U.S. airspace under Trump undetected.)