The Chinese spy balloon before being shot down after national freakout
The sightings of July 19–20,
1952, made front-page headlines in newspapers around the nation. A typical
example was the headline from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in Iowa. It read "SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL"
in large black type.[10] By coincidence, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation into UFO sightings, was in
Washington at the time. However, he did not learn about the sightings until
Monday, July 21, when he read the headlines in a Washington-
At 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, 1952, a pilot and stewardess on
a National Airlines flight into Washington
observed some lights above their plane. Within minutes, both radar centers at
National Airport, and the radar at Andrews AFB, were tracking more unknown
objects.[14] USAF
master sergeant Charles E. Cummings visually observed the objects at Andrews,
he later said that "these lights did not have the characteristics of
shooting stars. There was [sic] no trails . . . they traveled faster than any
shooting star I have ever seen."[7]
Meanwhile, Albert M. Chop, the press spokesman for Project Blue
Book, arrived at National Airport and, due to security concerns,
denied several reporters' requests to photograph the radar screens. He then
joined the radar center personnel.[15] By
this time (9:30 p.m.) the radar center was detecting unknown objects in
every sector. At times the objects traveled slowly; at other times they
reversed direction and moved across the radarscope at speeds calculated at up
to 7,000 mph (11,250 km/h).[
In the Robertson Panel’s controversial estimate, the Air Force and Project Blue Book needed to spend less time analyzing and studying UFO reports and more time publicly debunking them. The panel recommended that the Air Force and Project Blue Book should take steps to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired
A more recent WaPo account from July 20, 2012 tried to punk readers with this:
The month that E.T. came to D.C.
Writing:
The Washington Daily News had written at the time:
“Recent attempts to explain ‘saucers’ as optical illusions have been shaken by
recent radar sightings. Illusions don’t show up on a radar screen.”
Illusions don’t, but temperature inversions do. A temperature inversion occurs when a layer of cold air is trapped under a layer of warm air.
However, temperature inversions aren’t radar clocked at 7,000 m/h. And temperature inversions, or mere ‘lights’ from optical effects, don’t result in reporters being denied requests to photograph radar screens. Let’s also please note the Air Force’s own Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Edward Ruppelt, was not consulted prior to the press conference in which the USAF tried the debunking routine. Ruppelt later publicly denounced the Air Force’s explanation, saying that temperature inversions were already well-documented radar anomalies, and what happened in Washington, D.C., was not related to an inversion.
Again, we behold the pathetic efforts of small minds at work to
reach for utterly ridiculous prosaic nonsense to try to deny the obvious:
actual craft from another world having their way in our airspace. With the resident alleged "intelligent" inhabitants too dense to admit their reality.
“Oh, oh but it’s impossible ‘cause other worlds is too far and
they’d have to travel at light speed or more to get here!”
Which babble I have already addressed in the post below taking the irrepressible WSJ Troll Holman Jenkins Jr. to task:
Holman Jenkins Jr. In Latest WSJ Piece Shows UFO Topics Are Way Beyond His Pay Grade
Of course, Jenkins still can't get over his fixation that UFO-UAP reports are really being used to "hide" the truth. As he wrote in a recent piece:
For those who couldn’t figure out why I devoted four columns to the Pentagon UFO debate, this is why. It became clear that, whether from serendipity or design, national security agencies were using UFOs to hide something they didn’t want us to see. That something, it has slowly dribbled out since last May, was Chinese surveillance in U.S. airspace.
But does this twit really believe the Chinese spy balloon so many 'Muricans are freaking out over is anything remotely like the craft reported by the Nimitz pilots, e.g.
Newsflash Chinese spy balloons don't move at 7,000 mph.
What Jenkins Jr. still doesn't get - likely never will because of an underwhelming IQ -- is that the military and media deflection pranks are all about the loss of “sovereignty” so must desperately try to rationalize what can’t be rationalized.
But Holman probably saw yet another breaking Jan. 13 WSJ story (p. A6):
Reported UFO Sighting Up Sharply Over 2 Years
As more reinforcement for his nonsense about "hiding" the truth of Chinese sy balloon surveillance. In any case that piece likely fell off most folks' 'radar' - what with all the media focus on Biden's missing "classified" files and the nutso furor resulting. The WSJ story by Warren P. Strobel was important as it focused on increased UFO sightings since 2020, noting:
"Reported sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, known popularly as UFOs, have climbed significantly in the past two years, and almost half the new sightings remain unexplained, U.S. spy agencies and the Pentagon said in a report released Thursday.
The study led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the number of UAP sightings—often by Navy and Air Force pilots—stands at 510, with 366 of those reports coming in since March 2021...'Some of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis,” it said."
But from where I sit, any such analysis now needs to be detached from the 'sovereignty' bunkum which is holding back any objective assessment. Once again, that malformed trope tends to reject the entire UFO-UAP phenomenon as real because the very existence of such collides with the human concept of state sovereignty. This based on a superb 2008 paper in the journal Political Theory by Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, e.g.
Sovereignty and the UFO - Alexander Wendt, Raymond Duvall, 2008
In which the authors make the compelling case the real reason UFOs have been dismissed or treated as unworthy of serious human attention is because of the existential challenge they pose to a species that fancies itself the lords of creation - as well as the most technologically advanced life form.
As physicist Jack Sarfatti makes clear in his Youtube talk (link below) it is time this baloney cease and the powers-that-be and their media allies face reality. We are being visited and it isn't by the Russians (who can barely sustain a war with Ukraine), or the Chinese - apart from their spy balloons.
At the same time, until a firm human reality consciousness emerges, I'd strongly advise any aliens piloting the UAP to avoid any prominent appearances. They wouldn't want to get attacked by F-22s like the Chinese "spy" balloon. That shoot down done to satiate the hysterics among us - to "preserve sovereignty"- was successful and the pieces fell harmlessly in the Atlantic Ocean. However, a similar attempt against a benign alien craft may not end with a beneficial outcome. For us.
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by Amanda Marcotte | February 8, 2023 - 8:32am | permalink
Excerpt:
It's a truth that should be self-evident: If you are emasculated by a balloon, you weren't so tough to begin with. Last week, a balloon that U.S. officials believe to be a Chinese surveillance device was spotted floating over Montana, likely to take pictures of military assets. In the grown-up world where President Joe Biden and Democrats live, this was a situation that called for a thoughtful, careful response. While displeased with the predicament, adults recognized that freaking out was not the answer. Instead, they waited until the balloon wasn't a direct threat to people and property underneath and shot it down over the ocean.
Meanwhile, Republicans — many in elected office who could be doing something useful with their time — saw the Chinese balloon as an opportunity for cringeworthy tough guy cosplay. Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance was just one of many, many Republicans who spent the Days of the Chinese Balloon ping-ponging between performative hysterics and childish games of dress-up where they pretended they were somehow going to shoot the balloon down.
And:
by Mel Gurtov | February 4, 2023 - 8:43am | permalink
Excerpt:
The detection yesterday of a Chinese balloon hovering over Montana, where the US houses ICBMs, probably falls into the category of military surveillance, though the fact of the matter remains to be determined.
To my mind, the US has overreacted to the discovery, postponing an important visit to Beijing by the secretary of state. Granted, a Chinese high-altitude balloon should not have been floating over US territory; as Secretary Blinken said, it violated sovereignty and international law.
And:
by David Badash | February 4, 2023 - 7:24am | permalink
— from The New Civil Rights Movement
James Comer is pushing baseless conspiracy theories about the Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon floating over the United States – currently, over Montana – that the Pentagon is tracking, and he’s being widely mocked for his unfounded fear-mongering.
And:
And:
Anthropocentric Parochialism Defines SETI Scientism.
And:
Jack Sarfatti - UAPs,
Warp-Drives, Time-Travel & Consciousness (Part 1) - YouTube
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