{"id":1833572,"date":"2023-02-03T07:34:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833572"},"modified":"2023-02-03T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:35:37","slug":"was-the-government-ever-going-to-tell-us-about-the-chinese-surveillance-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/was-the-government-ever-going-to-tell-us-about-the-chinese-surveillance-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Was The Government Ever Going To Tell Us About The Chinese Surveillance Balloon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwas-the-government-ever-going-to-tell-us-about-the-chinese-surveillance-balloon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Two years ago, I was looking for aliens at Roswell. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/14\/what-happened-when-i-looked-for-ancient-aliens-in-roswell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reporting trip<\/a> New Mexico. While aliens may not be real, conspiracy theories do. <\/p>\n<p>A rancher found debris that was larger than a football field in 1947 after a thunderstorm during the height of the U.S. flying saucer wave. Air Force officials initially said the material was from a flying disc before claiming it was a crashed weather balloon, but many remain skeptical of the government\u2019s explanation given that such balloons don\u2019t leave behind a wide area of destruction. <\/p>\n<p>The military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Roswell-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recognized<\/a> Although the debris was part a secret atomic project, records of it remain classified. Although President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/503549-trump-on-roswell-i-wont-talk-to-you-about-what-i-know-about-it-but\/]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a> in 2020 he\u2019s heard \u201cvery interesting\u201d Roswell refused to release any documents.<\/p>\n<p>More questions surround an apparent airborne spy object that was located 1,000 miles north Roswell, 75 years after the incident. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-found-northern-us-rcna68879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon hovers over Billings in Montana. It is believed that the alleged weapon of spying had flown over Canada from the Alaskan Aleutian Islands before reaching airspace above America&#8217;s nuclear arsenal. According to NBC News, the balloon was spotted over the state that\u2019s home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-spy-balloon-seen-over-u-s-this-weekofficials-11675376397?mod=us_more_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">150 warheads<\/a> Wednesday: Near where the Chinese were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11044615\/China-purchased-300-acres-North-Dakota-20-minutes-military-base-causing-security-concerns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purchase up <\/a>American farmland <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days,\u201d NBC reported. \u201cMilitary and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Defense officials, military leaders refused the shot because the debris would create a danger to civilian lives in rural areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-spy-balloon-seen-over-u-s-this-weekofficials-11675376397?mod=us_more_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>According to The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, President Joe Biden was briefed by The Wall Street Journal on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>If the Pentagon knew the surveillance tool was on its way to the nuclear arsenal, however, why didn\u2019t the president have it shot down when it was over Alaska? Was Biden\u2019s Wednesday briefing his first? Why wasn\u2019t he told sooner? Why didn\u2019t officials inform the public when it crossed into U.S. airspace? Perhaps our government didn&#8217;t catch the balloon, and is now covering up their mistakes. And why didn\u2019t the Canadians shoot it down?<\/p>\n<p>Even more troubling is why the Chinese would have a surveillance balloon over Montana in the first place, considering Beijing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/4453\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Advanced satellites<\/a> in low-earth orbit that provide all the bird\u2019s eye images they need. Are they sending a message before Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/blinken-meet-chinas-xi-during-beijing-visit-financial-times-2023-02-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit <\/a>Next week in the Chinese capital? Is <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/tiktok-spying-internal-report-us-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Espionage <\/a>Not enough TikTok? The balloon might have been lost on us if the press had not taken a photo.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know what happened at Roswell, and we probably never will. Is it a weather balloon or a meteorite? 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