Yesterday, it was reported that the U.S. has been tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon. A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information although the Chinese Foreign Ministry said it simply flew off course. One of the places the balloon was spotted was in Montana, near one of the nation’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base. The U.S. government has identified China as Washington’s top security concern but can we consider this an act of aggression by China? Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks about BALLOONCIAGA.
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The threat for Nuclear war continues to garner headline after headline. Today Volodymyr Zelensky encouraged NATO to use nuclear weapons against Russia.
With the world on tenterhooks over whether Vladimir Putin might resort to non-conventional arms in Ukraine to turn around his faltering invasion, Zelensky described how undefinedpreventative strikesundefined were a disincentive for such atomic weapons.
Russian officials condemned the comments, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, telling RIA Novosti that they were undefinednothing more than a call to start a world war with unpredictable, monstrous consequences.undefined
Several prominent social media users accused the Ukrainian president of fanning undefinednuclearundefined rhetoric following his recent video address.
Meanwhile there have been what appear to be secret launches of rockets that are reported as UFO’s.
Astronomers were left baffled when a mysterious blue swirling shape briefly appeared in the night sky over Hawaii last week.
It was observed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japanundefineds Subaru Telescope.
The Japanese space agency noted that the strange appearance in the sky seemed to be connected to SpaceXundefineds latest satellite launch. Theories about what was seen ranged anywhere from a portal opening up to a massive UFO.
All of these sightings are quite dramatic—and it leaves us with the question of whether of not we are seeing war expand to many domains—land, air, sea, and of course outer space.
UFOs have always been the subject of national security because there have been many instances where these unknowns have been seen over nuclear facilities where they have actually taken our missile systems offline.
There was the Air Defense command’s report on the Malmstrom Air Force Base incident where a UFO shut down our missile defense systems, the Rendelsham incident where military personnel came in contact with a triangular craft, and the Nimitz incident in 2004, where fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported seeing a fleet of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Throughout history, unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) have shocked, frightened and fascinated sky watchers. And in the last century, more than a few have been reported in military contexts.
In late World War II, U.S. airmen called them “foo fighters”: strange orange flying lights by the French-German border. During the Korean War, some soldiers claimed a blue-green light emitting “pulsing rays” made their whole battalion sick with what, to some, resembled radiation poisoning.
Less known: In the last 75 years, high-ranking U.S. military and intelligence personnel have also reported UAPs near sites associated with nuclear power, weaponry and technology—from the early atomic-bomb development and test sites to active nuclear naval fleets.
All of the nuclear facilities—Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River—all had dramatic incidents where these unknown craft appeared over the facilities and nobody knew where they were from or what they were doing there.
Observers can only speculate about the origin of these unexplained phenomena. But the repeated proximity to sensitive defense sites connected to our nation’s most powerful weapons has raised the question of whether they might originate from adversaries—known or unknown.
In 1967, missiles began shutting down from ‘alert’ status to ‘No-Go’ status in rapid succession at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. None of the four or five missiles which faulted came back on line. Some signal had been sent to the missiles which caused them to go off alert status.
Military witnesses claimed that there were UFO’s sighted over the base at the time.
In late 1968, numerous ground witnesses observed an unconventional aerial object maneuvering over the [Minuteman] ICBM missile fields surrounding Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. During this time, an unidentified object paced a B-52 and was recorded on radar. Later, the crew of the B-52 overflew and observed a large glowing object on or near the ground.
Yesterday It was reported that the U.S. has been tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, It has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down over concerns of hurting people on the ground.
Many people were gazing up in the sky with their phone cameras wondering why a strange UFO was hovering in the sky above them.
A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has “very high confidence” it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, near to one of the nation’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
The high-altitude balloon was spotted over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday. It flew over the Aleutian Islands, through Canada, and into Montana. A senior defense official said the balloon is still over the U.S. but declined to say where it is now.
On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin convened a meeting of senior military and defense leaders, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, NORTHCOM/NORAD Commander Gen. Glen VanHerck, and other combatant commanders.
NORAD sent aircraft — including F-22 Raptors from Nellis Air Force Base and airborne early warning aircraft known as AWACs — but the official would not say whether one of the options was to shoot the balloon out of the sky with a U.S. aircraft.
The U.S. military flights prompted a ground stop at the airport in Billings, with air traffic controllers citing a “special military mission.”
The leaders reviewed the threat profile of the Chinese stratospheric balloon and possible response options, and ultimately decided not to recommend taking it out kinetically, because of the risk to safety and security of people on the ground from the possible debris field. Pentagon leaders presented the options to President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
A senior administration official confirmed that Biden had been briefed and received a “strong recommendation” that the balloon not be shot down.
Biden did not respond to a question from reporters about the balloon on Thursday afternoon at the White House.
The official said the balloon does not pose a threat to civil aviation because of its altitude.
The official said the U.S. military will continue to monitor it closely and will keep the option of taking out the balloon on the table.
This type of activity is not unprecedented, a senior defense official said in a press conference, with China flying stratospheric balloons like this before, but the difference this time is the balloon is staying over the U.S. longer than usual.
The striking development comes at a time of peak tension between the world powers, and just hours ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s expected departure for Beijing, where he is to hold a series of long-scheduled meetings with senior Chinese officials. The high-stakes visit, Blinken’s first to the country as the United States’ top diplomat, is aimed at stabilizing the U.S.-China relationship — a goal that could become more difficult following the espionage aircraft’s appearance in U.S. airspace.
The U.S. government has identified China as Washington’s top security concern.
But can we consider this an act of aggression by China?
China’s brazen surveillance efforts wit this balloon coincides with recent warnings from the U.S. Air Force over proposed Chinese land purchases in North Dakota about 12 miles from a military facility where drone test flights are conducted.
The pending deal for a corn milling site has fueled concerns that the purchase is a cover for Chinese surveillance activities. A U.S. interagency committee decided last year it did not have jurisdiction to oppose the sale.
Air Force Assistant Secretary Andrew P. Hunter took an unambiguous view in a letter released earlier this week by North Dakota’s senators.
“The proposed project presents a significant threat to national security,” it says, “both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area.” The senators called for the project to be discontinued.
There has been a pattern of UFO sightings over many sites.
Malmstrom AFB in Montana undefined Minot AFB In North Dakota , Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota, F,E, Warren AFB in Wyoming and Whiteman AFB in Missouri.
All locations of Minuteman III silos in the United States.
It is not immediately clear when the balloon first entered U.S. airspace, but the senior U.S. defense official said it had arrived undefineda couple of days ago.undefined
At the press conference a point was raised about whether such balloon activity could potentially be the source of at least some reported sightings of what are now are officially referred to as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
Previously such objects were commonly described as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
In January, the Pentagon’s newly formed All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and ODNI’s National Intelligence Manager for Aviation (NIM-A) jointly released an unclassified version of an annual report to Congress on UAPs. That report said that there had been 366 newly cataloged UAP incidents in 2022 – including older incidents AARO and NIM-A were not previously aware of – 163 of which were said to have been undefinedballoon or balloon-like entities.undefined
This may indicate that we have been observed by Chinese surveillance assets. Never the less -whatever is out there it is a threat to national security.
This particular incident over Montana also recalls the still unexplained reported sightings of what might have been swarms of drones over areas of Colorado and Nebraska between December 2019 and January 2020. Some of those incidents were near Minuteman III silo fields, too.
UFOs or drones were swarming over the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Arizona across multiple nights in September 2019.
The Chinese Peopleundefineds Liberation Army (PLA), together with ostensibly civilian entities with close ties to it, is also known to be heavily investing in high-altitude lighter-than-air platforms, such as blimps and balloons, that could be used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance purposes, among other missions.
But this is only part of what is being planned above our heads.
Satellite Hunter systems are being secretly launched into space by both the Chinese and the United States. Many believe that this is indicative of a space war that is in the planning.
General Mike Minihan just made headlines when he predicted that the U.S. would go to war with China in 2025. General Minihan is the commander of Headquarters Air Mobility Command. In a memorandum dated February 1, 2023, the general instructed his subordinates to prepare for war with China and to begin those preparations immediately.
Former US Air Force major Even “Jolly” Rogers stated “Conflict exists on a continuum that begins with competition and ultimately leads into full-scale conflict like what you’re seeing in Ukraine,” he says. The US, he adds, is already “in active competition with Russia and China for freedom of action and dominance of the space domain. And it’s evolving very quickly.”
So on January 26 last year, the former US Air Force major incorporated True Anomaly, Inc to “solve the most challenging orbital warfare problems for the US Space Force.”
With name like True anomaly one would think that we are not only planning a space confrontation with the Chinese and Russia, but with anomalous entities above.
According to a recent filing with the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC), True Anomaly is now gearing up for its first orbital mission. In October, True Anomaly hopes to launch two Jackal “orbital pursuit” spacecraft aboard a SpaceX rocket to low earth orbit.
The Jackals will not house guns, warheads, or laser blasters, but they will be capable of rendezvous proximity operations (RPO)—the ability to maneuver close to other satellites and train a battery of sensors upon them. This could reveal their rivals’ surveillance and weapons systems or help intercept communications.
In their first mission, dubbed Demo-1, the Jackals will merely spy on each other, using thrusters, radar, and multi-spectral cameras to approach within a few hundred meters. If that goes well, Rogers envisages deploying thousands of autonomous spacecraft in service of the US military, controlled by a team of human operators and AI “to pursue adversaries wherever they fly, and to provide the tools of accountability.”
Those tools start with understanding what technologies America’s adversaries are deploying in space.
Nothing on True Anomaly’s website suggests that it is developing its own offensive weapons. However, in a series of posts last summer, Rogers tweeted: “Tactically disabling enemy spacecraft can be the difference between the loss of an entire Carrier Strike Group or its survivalundefined And there are many ways to destroy spacecraft that don’t ruin the environment. After all, they are just floating computers.”
With the news of this silent balloon saga over Montana The Chinese Foreign Ministry denied that the craft was a spy vehicle and said it was a civilian balloon that was designed primarily for meteorological study and had blown off course.
Literally they said it was a weather balloon undefined the same excuses they give for the various UFOundefineds that have been seen and now documented by the Pentagon.
This opens a new can of worms as to what we have been seeing that may explain some of the UFOundefineds that have been seen and the increase of sightings by the military.
Not all of them however.
While there are plenty of UFO believers that will tell you that many scientists and government officials are well aware of what is going on, we may have been too hasty in thinking that everyone is agreeing on what we are dealing with and whether or not UFO’s are being piloted exclusively by extraterrestrial intelligence.
This is something that needs to be talked about openly and without prejudice to one theory or another.
When a cigar is just a cigar we need to deal with it -and not go into flights of fancy about how everything is being piloted by E.T.s
Elon Musk has done enough to pollute the skies with his satellites making it harder to differentiate his inventions and UFOs that might be otherworldly.
But Musk is also making space a bit more dangerous as his Starlink Satellites are keeping the War in Ukraine connected.
Starlink is the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s space company, SpaceX, that currently has over 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit that beam the signal back to users’ receiver dishes. Its promise lies in its potential to extend coverage to rural areas and to the Global South, but there are serious questions about whether that will be the ultimate use case.
When the first few Starlink satellites were launched, it was a novelty to spot them, but that quickly changed as their numbers multiplied into the hundreds and thousands. Consider this: since the Soviet Union sent up its first Sputnik satellite in 1957, about 13,600 satellites have been launched into orbit by state and private entities, of which about 6,700 are still active. SpaceX already controls nearly half of them and is pushing for many more. It has plans to deploy 12,000 satellites by 2026, but that could eventually expand to a total of 42,000.
At the moment they are being used for war -and Ukraine uses them for internet in the trenches. Something that both the Chinese and Russians could target in a space conflict.
This means that any UFO could be a threat to national security. Whether it be a killer satellite, a spy balloon, a nuclear warhead or aliens wanting a war of the world scenario.
This is the loveliest sort of uncertainty, because it exists at a distance that allows us to make it whatever we want, whenever we want before we retreat back to the stability of our everyday existences here on this planet.
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