Spy Historian Debunks Chinese Spy Balloon Theories | WIRED

Maybe it was not a Spy Balloon after all.

Now, US officials confirmed that the Ballon didn't collect information. Is that meaning you are lied or you are idiot?

This guy is an idiot. He says weather balloon payloads are only ever a few kg. But if you look at NASA’s own website…

>The balloon system includes the balloon, the parachute and a payload that holds instuments to conduct scientific measurements. Helium, the same gas used to fill party balloons, is used in NASA balloons. These very large balloons can carry a payload weighing as much as 3,600 kilograms (8,000 pounds), about the weight of three small cars. They can fly up to 42 kilometers (26 miles) high and stay there for up to two weeks.
The Balloon Program's capabilities are being expanded with the development of an Ultra Long Duration Balloon (ULDB). The ULDB is made of advanced materials and uses a new pumpkin-shaped balloon design to achieve flights of up to 100 days. The ULDB is completely sealed and pressurized in order to maintain constant altitude night and day. The ULDB payload consists of a solar power system, radio receivers and transmitters, computers, batteries and other systems required for science experiments.

So a payload of several tons, not a few kg, and solar panels. That’s a match with the Chinese Terror Balloon..

Sometimes a balloon is just a balloon.

Yeah American is a bunch of stupid they’re paranoid about spy balloon be a bunch of full of idiots we can debunk that.

My question was wasn't there a way for us to drop it without using a rocket I'm pretty sure we could have used RC copter.

Is a weather balloon dangerous ....then what about the space station(Space Laws)

Is the dajjal hypnotizing America?????

Crazy how it took them AFTER it flew across the ENTIRE COUNTRY for them to finally shoot it down! Almost like they didn't wanna get in the way of Beijing's goals

Lots of china balloons flying over USA.i wouldn't doubt that they've been releasing a plague on the USA to make us sick or kill us. The people in the USA need to wake up. They say that medical companies have sold everyone's DNA to china.there going to make DNA war fair to kill Americans or who ever they focus on.

American panic & stupid😂

"Over important air force bases... " I'd like to know how close it got. If you stretch the term "over" or "near" enough, you can't fly anywhere without being "over" or "near" any air force base. I'm 100 % sure it couldn't maneuver at all and any proximity to any base is pure coincidence. No, a balloon like that goes where the wind carries it, the shape and possible propulsion makes maneuvering impossible.

Meanwhile China's electronics is in just about everything in the USA. America, made in China.

The slower the balloon goes the more info they get… this guy definitely works for China

I love coming back around now to see the idiots that thought they were so smart calling it a weather ballon

Wow it already scanned half the air bases, great job. We found that norad failed its job and we gave them way to much info.

Lost all respect for or military and media for the way they handled this. If our best option was to watch and wait to shoot it down then we are weak and shouldn’t be surprised if we get invaded

Next time I go to a bday party, i'm definitely going to be looking at the balloons differently

Chinese could choose many different ways to spy or attack. They own most of the phones or make most of the parts we need for our machinery.

Why You need a dumb Balloon If You have Satellite 🙄

Surprised the media did something like this.

Um, there's the American thing where they can drop missiles out of a cargo plane, sooo, this is their response? You don't need the plane, you have the balloon that could lazer guide the bombs... if its drifting that high up no one could detect it? it's like a slow moving cheaper b52, dunno the cost of the rig, but, rough estimate ar the higher end, cost for cost, 1 b52 would be a billion, balloon 20 million, so 1 b52 = 50 balloons?

A balloon could carry CBRN methods as well, it doesn’t have to be a bomb.

HE IS A COMMUNIST !!! ITS A SPY BALLOON !!! HE IS TRYING TO BRAIN WASH YOU !!! LOL

NENA predicted this 40 years ago

我们只希望世界和平

"mental gymnastics" lol.

"B L O O N S"

I don’t quite understand the part about “can it see inside your windows?” Wouldn’t the imaging device (or the balloon itself) need to be level with the window in order to see in it?

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What an accent! Horrible. Fit for the non-contents.

these weren't real myths, jesus christ the click bait

I don't trust this fuckin shill

Still incredible how China responded to this incident. When will our leaders learn that China is too immature to be taken serious on the world stage. They need to be called out in their lies and deceit.

it's been a months since they recovered the debris, how come they are not showing us the hard evidence? they always use any excuse to scream that china is evil yet they are completely silent.

You should not assume it's a spy balloon just because China is more technologically advanced in weather monitoring and you don't understand their technology. It's like saying I have a combustible-based car and yours is electric, I don't know electric cars so I believe it's a tank...

In 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon that was over '25 storeys' tall also fitted with solar panels flew over Russia when it got caught up in the jet stream. It was a high altitude balloon designed to monitor the ozone layer. Claiming the size of a balloon can't be a weather balloon because of it's size is just ignorance.

I think its more confirming that it was chinese and was in fact spying... 🤔

Wired cringe binge

Not today CIA , Nice try FBI

Frankly I'm disappointed that you tried to mask a political video as a technical video.

So many Americans being bought with CCP money.
Easiest to be compromised are the Americans.

Unsub for useless explanation, bye wired.

So it is not a spy balloon? Cuz nothing spyish was found.

What about Google earth?

That accent... I'm melting 😍😍.

Y'all in the comments acting like the US doesn't spy on China too, God the hypocrisy...

japan will retake the kurils sakhalin and vladivostok south korea will take nroth koea.