Top general says previous spy balloon
flights over the U.S. slipped through undetected
Politico,
by
Lara Seligman
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
2/6/2023 6:26:12 PM
The military did not detect previous flights of Chinese spy balloons over the U.S. that took place during the Trump administration, a top general said Monday, due to a "gap" in the Defense Department's ability to track certain airborne objects. Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of North American Aerospace Defense Command, cited the issue as the reason that at least three spy balloon flights were not briefed to senior Trump officials at the time.
"So those balloons, so every day as a NORAD commander it's my responsibility to detect threats to North America," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "I will tell you that we did not detect those threats.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 2/6/2023 6:29:51 PM (No. 1396709)
Liars with stars on their shoulders; simply stooges for Biden and the Democrat party.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/6/2023 6:32:48 PM (No. 1396713)
So secret, we just had to make them up for this. Pathetic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/6/2023 6:46:09 PM (No. 1396727)
For this we pay more than the next top 10 nations' military? Shut down the Pentagon, we'll be safer.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/6/2023 6:47:00 PM (No. 1396730)
Ma.... git me the shovel.... the crap is getting deep in here!!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
reefdiver 2/6/2023 6:47:06 PM (No. 1396731)
B.S.!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/6/2023 6:47:11 PM (No. 1396732)
All of these clowns should be fired.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 2/6/2023 6:51:03 PM (No. 1396736)
How does he know about them if they 'slipped through undetected'?
Is he selling overpriced paintings to the Chinese also?
....Follow the money......
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/6/2023 7:00:15 PM (No. 1396742)
My understanding is the current ballon was spotted by Montana residents. A balloon over TX or FL would have certainly been noticed by someone gazing at the sky or an aircraft. B.S.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/6/2023 7:01:54 PM (No. 1396743)
One of the reasons Trump founded/funded and instituted "Space Force"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/6/2023 7:03:18 PM (No. 1396745)
If no one knew they were there, how do they know they missed them? Simple logic.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
janjan 2/6/2023 7:05:50 PM (No. 1396748)
This is an outright lie. The Pentagon is equally out of control with the FBI. Outrageous.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
billa57 2/6/2023 7:16:30 PM (No. 1396755)
Please! Fall on your sword.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/6/2023 7:20:21 PM (No. 1396761)
How on earth do these people get promoted to general? We're in deep trouble.
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Well, didn't we once get outsmarted by the Somalis? I seem to recall their use of walkie-talkies to communicate on frequencies that were too low tech for our high-tech EW systems to capture when we went in. That being said, there appeared to be enough metallic structure hanging beneath that balloon for any radar system to pick up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 2/6/2023 7:48:09 PM (No. 1396781)
I live within jogging distance to one of NASA's eight Columbia Scientific Balloon Facilities, which has been active since 1961. Spotting and tracking balloons that fly up to 137,000 feet is not a problem. In fact, Alan Eustace, in 2014 used such a balloon as a jump platform in a parachute jump from 135,898 feet. The Chinese balloon was reportedly at a relatively meagre altitude of 60,000 feet. NORAD and NASA have tracked relatively small objects, like space shuttles and other launched space craft and satellites, so tracking a 450 foot + diameter balloon, slow moving, was not difficult even back in the 1960s. Unlike the 1960s, the US has tracking capability from orbiting satellites, looking down on objects plunging to earth from space. Our ground based radar technology has improved significantly, since the days of the rotary telephones. Now we have supposedly high-level military brass leaking to the DNC press that during 2017 - 2021, our military and scientific community lacked the ability to detect and track a nominally high-altitude, slow-moving object larger than a circus tent. I call BS. The Biden military has been neutered to the point of becoming tranny experts while providing no military deterrent relative to attacks on our homeland. And by the reasoning of the Biden military brass, if Russia attacked the US with nuclear capable Bear bombers, we'd refrain from shooting it down as it might crash into someone's barn or outhouse. So either way, lying or not, everything coming from this administration constitutes grounds for impeachment and a wholesale cashiering of all of the military's senior officers. Then they can become civilian tranny experts and leave the defense of our homeland to warfighters.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/6/2023 7:54:56 PM (No. 1396782)
Like people.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/6/2023 8:26:25 PM (No. 1396792)
If the previous Chinese spy balloon flights over the US slipped through undetected, how does anyone know that they occurred? If you are aware of them, they were not undetected because you are reporting them. Why wait until now? Why weren't they reported to the Trump administration? Was this another example of security agency personnel operating under their own agenda and not reporting things to Trump because they do not like his politics? Wouldn't be the first time!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/6/2023 8:30:34 PM (No. 1396796)
Bingo, #7. How did he know….
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jayjeti 2/6/2023 8:39:37 PM (No. 1396803)
Biden takes responsibility for nothing, except something he's made up, because he hasn't accomplished anything good yet.
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Why do we fund NORAD then if balloons are slipping into our airspace undetected?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lizzyboo 2/6/2023 9:15:17 PM (No. 1396837)
These clowns at NORAD can track Santa Claus but huge Chinese balloons elude them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
hershey 2/6/2023 10:34:59 PM (No. 1396886)
Well smarty, if they were undetected, then how do you know there were any???? What a friggin idiot...and how did he ever make general???
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
judy 2/6/2023 10:44:50 PM (No. 1396889)
Only this WH can say undetected balloons are now detected, there is no inflation, the gas prices are low, the borders are secure & they was a great withdrawal in Afghanistan…all with the fake media approval !
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 2/6/2023 11:56:24 PM (No. 1396940)
If true, fire the top 25 USAF officers.
If it's a lie, fire the top 20 USAF officers.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/7/2023 6:59:45 AM (No. 1397056)
Sounds like "top general" is just making stuff up.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 2/7/2023 8:20:33 AM (No. 1397134)
I had some dealings with top military brass. Most were pretty good, these idiots that are in charge now seem like ROTC dropouts. "We live in a country conceived by extremely smart people and run by morons".
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
David Key 2/7/2023 9:35:34 AM (No. 1397239)
Well that explains it. So Biden can't be blamed because after all Trump didn't do anything when spy balloons flew over the nation under his watch. But then he nor the men responsible for knowing such things apparently didn't even know it was happening. So where are the heads that should roll over such dereliction if duty? Then again I don't seem to remember any heads rolling over the fiasco in Afghanistan? We can have gross incompetence displayed for all to see and nobody pays any price. My my how we have become a complacent bunch of sheep.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 2/7/2023 11:34:44 AM (No. 1397380)
Well General bring out the evidence and tell us by name who was responsible.
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Surreal. You want a convoluted tale? You got it! Just read all of this slowly to leaen the lengths the top talent Biden henchpersons will go to in order to bring Trump into their balloon fiasco and muddy the water.