Urgent race to recover debris from suspected Chinese spy balloon l GMA
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down by a U.S. fighter aircraft off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday afternoon after traveling across the continental U.S. Now, Navy vessels are swarming the debris field to find whatever is left from the vessel.
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And not a peep heard from Canada as it flew over their air space. LOL
right on! that's to show how dramatic they want to be.
They had nothing to shoot it down
@@hdtvcamera1 Canada is part of NORAD. They could have asked for help. North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Canada and the continental United States."
@@housedog101 could have, didn't. Justin Trudeau is an admirer of communist China and their ability to impose government will.
Canada doesn'j have paranoid MAGA loons that are constantly nervous and on the edge about every little thing.
They destroyed it to peaces. Why not shoot with .50 to make few holes for it land softly.
Exactly! Why do you need a dam missile to shoot it down when you could just use bullets to put a few holes in it and make come down slow enough so you can recover it fully intact. Who the hell makes these dumb decisions?
I think Finland tried shooting a balloon down once and over 1000 rounds didn't make much difference
why do people keep saying this? oh, right, anti science crowd.
I did not know we had the technology to shoot a bullet and control it to the exact place we wanted it to hit from a fast moving plane /s
@@woodstream6137 It actually was Canada that tried that, and it was about 25 years ago. It was their own balloon that they lost control of, then decided to be responsible (unlike China) and try bring it down. They fired about 1000 rounds into the actual balloon, and while it did begin to descend slowly.....it actually descended WAY TOO slow to where it finally landed in Finland. IT LITERALLY WENT ACROSS THE ENTIRE ATLANTIC OCEAN BEFORE IT TOUCHED GROUND. And yes, when finally recovered, there were a ton of bullet holes in the balloon. Turns out weather balloons don't pop like a traditional helium filled rubber/latex balloon. The amount of comments that don't understand this are just plain mind boggling... 🤦♂️
Also, the missile that the F22 shot into the BALLOON (ie it only hit the balloon, it purposely didn't damage the payload) did not have a traditional warhead. Instead it was modified to tear apart the balloon and nothing else, which it did. Please watch multiple videos closely and in slow motion of the actual hit. It's not hard to tell that the balloon is destroyed, with bits of it flying around, all while the payload is totally intact and just begins to fall straight down.
Unfortunately the majority of people commenting on this video are too lazy to actually look into all the available data.
My question is if it really is just a civilian airship why are they saying they can retaliate lol
You don't think if China shot down a civilian airship, we would threaten to retaliate?
Civilian damage is MORE likely to get some sort of retaliation.
If terrorists killed civilians, will US force retaliate?
Chinese civilians on board which would give them reason to say we're the bad guys and escalate. Wargames.
@@PlutoidBruno It was unmanned so nobody killed anybody. If American civilians lost control of a balloon and it went over another superpower's airspace I bet the US Govt would probably say "it's their airspace and you shouldn't have lost control of your balloon" and would do basically nothing.
China just trying to start some s$$t
Destroyed after allowing it to complete it's mission. Stunning and brave! 👍
🇨🇳 Biden 🇨🇳
Good job with 3 missiles,1.2 millions dollars in exchange of 10,000 dollar of useless debris. More spending is ongoing for the searching.
@@mrpickles3454 did you listen to the video lol? they said that biden wanted to shoot down the ballon much earlier but the pentagon said not to until it was safe to do so
LET'S GO BRANDON!
@Tea Cup I don't care what Biden said. He doesn't do anything without his handlers. He's a pathological liar and has dementia. Why would I listen to anything he says?
Good job waiting til it flew over the entire US.
"An important trading partner", you know, because all the slave labor.
This story just gets weirder and weirder.
Man, it would have been so much easier to find if it landed on land.
Critical thinking skills are not your strong suit are they
Particularly if it had a radioactive payload.
It likely would have been in more pieces and probably areas with population in them
@@williamjones6053 actually, that thinking makes great sense. It was tracked the entire way and there was more than a few areas where it could have been brought down, over land, safely, making recovery easier and far cheaper, duh-huh..
@@williamjones6053
It was "critical thinking" to let it blow over land in the first place?
Go back to bed.
*after days and days of talking and looking at the damn thing
It's a national security threat, but they didn't bother taking it down in the Pacific.
We have a clown running the country
In what sense is it a national security threat? We won't really know until it's recovered. Maybe it's China just trying to see how riled up the red hats will get and measuring our reaction.
@@woodstream6137 Are you seriously that slow?
@@chaseme9860 spell it out for me then. You think China is going to risk war by launching a biological, chemical, or nuclear weapon over the United States? Explain the consequences of such a passive attack. As far as reconnaissance goes, it's not very stealth so countermeasures could be easily employed where needed. Maybe they launched it because they didn't think the red hats were riled up enough against Biden which means they're playing right into China plans.
we have a national security threat in FLORIDA, and you people want it BACK.
They want to analyze the sensitive equipment ………. after they blew it into dust and scattered it across the ocean floor.
LoL 😂
100%
Water is softer than the ground, silly Qtard
@@Tasarran it really was just a weather balloon 🎈 silly rabbit 🐇 . LoL 😂
Kinda crazy I bet it was checking out the coast and air bases in SC
As a former Marine air traffic controller, I can tell you NORAD & the Pentagon didn’t just let these balloons enter U.S. airspace & transit the U.S. w/o beacon code not applying tedious counter-surveillance, hacking, & jamming.
semper fi
We need to get our act together and not be dependent on any other countries! Da 🇺🇸🙏
Tell everyone to vote for Trump then. People may not like his upfront personality but at least he is a patriot.
our distracted by weather balloons
And have a couple of allies that keep it to real
Then why did they hit the payload and not the balloon if the wanted to know what it was?
They hit the balloon with a non explosive missle
The Sparrow missile appears to disconnect the payload from the balloon.
@@JStorm13 then why not a few regular old bullets..?
Cuz that would've been the smart thing to do. Deflate it with a bullet from jet in top of balloon? Nahh... Send a missile into what looks like the most "high tech" part. That'll show em.
Exactly
Here is a question for you to think about. if the authority let this balloon stay up since it was over Alaska and waited till it was over the Atlantic Ocean to bring it down. what is to say if there was missiles or bombs on that rig and did worse to the U.S. this should have been brought done way before.
Why did they use rockets and not use guns for a slower decent
any puncture in that balloon would cause a burst.
@@ThatOpalGuy balloons made for this high altitude is not made of rubber like birthday balloons.
they needed to ensure it would come down in as shallow water as possible. Letting it deflate and wander further into the ocean would be an issue for recovery.
It could deflate and end up somewhere else.
Hitting it when it was right over shallow water was the right thing to do.
Plus this is further proof that when the US found out about it. They likely jammed and microwaved that object to the point its sensors were likely fried and the solar panels on that thing indicates it was likely a remote controlled or guided craft. Moment they jammed it, it probably drifted to its eventual location. Bet you it was meant to fly back up to Canada and circle around back towards china.
they didn't use the $50 billion balloon retriving device?
So jealous of that pilot! How cool would it have been to take that down? Yes, I'm easily amused 🙂
No, guys are easily amused by Fighter jets 😆. It's in our blood lol
I'm surprised we had developed the technology to track it. Obviously when it overflew Alaska and Western Canada on it's way to Idaho we couldn't see it. Maybe its cloaking device failed.
Ya-no. It was like just shooting a bullet through a dry-cleaner bag.
FYI: A Top Gun pilot would not be amused by shooting down a balloon. Not exactly a heroic feat of exceptionalism. 😂
this is the first comment on a news video that I argee with-
It had to be a WEATHER BALLOON! Because it released a THUNDERSTORM of criticism!
Ok Rodney Dangerfield lol
It caused wet pants all across middle America,
AYOOO!!!
They are fully aware of the destructiveness Salt Water can do to Chips and Harddrive, not to mention the Missal striking it into millions of pieces.
"They" is at it again...
Why couldn’t the self proclaimed best military in the world just capture it and take it for evidence ?😊
Now it's urgent?
“We waited til it was over the ocean to bring it down”
Balloon: was being tracked over ocean since it was launched
If they just made holes to let the air out, it would be easy to recover.
you are ignorant about stratospheric weather balloons
Our government doesn't have sense enough to do that with this administration
It would've traveled out of our air space by the time it deflated.
It was filled with Chinese AIDS and Pride Pox not air.
@@yuGrettuGehT who cares.
would have come down easier if they used the gun on the jet and put holes in the ballon instead of blowing it up.
20k difference in height. i doubt bullets could track easily that far. and, even with bullet holes in it, it would have blown up.
@@ThatOpalGuy It has a 20mm autocannon on that jet. It could have hit it.
So when you finally decided to shoot it down you didn't happen to math it out or have some necessary individuals in the area to watch and track the debris while falling?
stupidity shows my friend
It would have naturally scattered for several miles given the altitude. It's damn near at airline heights. That's why when aircraft crash or break up mid flight the debris field can be miles long.
Balloon panic 😅
This is what happens when you depend on ONE country for almost everything. I'd rethink and retool this arrangement if I was making decisions.
We do need to stop relying on China for so much I agree. Unfortunately, the labor is cheaper in Asian countries. US companies want to reduce labor costs and taxes so we move our businesses overseas to many countries. American CEO's tend to keep more money in their pockets. We tend to pay lower costs to Asian countries for their imports, which sometimes is good for Americans. The scary aspect of all this is just how much we depend on them for just about everything. The days of doing everything ourselves has been pretty much subbed out to other countries.
Biden is going to have all of us speaking Mandarin 😳
Mandarin is fun to learn. Be open minded
Trump already does speak Mandarin with his bank accounts and interests in China. What's your point exactly??
@@PlutoidBruno you know that is not his point.
@@yimingchen2670 What is your point though?
It's kind of weird that the size was measured in bus lengths instead if feet or meters....bet it was a weather balloon to begin with.
Anything but the metric
1:51 how exactly did it teleport from Wyoming to kansas??
At high altitudes flying objects can travel pretty fast.
Just ask Dorothy and Toto.
"Ancient Chinese Secret"
@El Capitan The Pentagon knew where it was and what it could see, and still advised this action.
I trust the Pentagon WAY more than I trust you.
Good work, Joetato, shooting it into salt water. Much better than the Alaska or Montana wilderness.
😐
Yeah, it is. Much better.
He wanted to shoot it down in Alaska, the Pentagon told him to wait. 3 balloons floated over the US while Trump was in office and he did nothing about them.
Shooting it down is much better then doing nothing like Trump.
Why is Joe bad again?
@@Andr50n Everyone was so respectful of Trump's office, weren't they? lol
Retrieving wreckage from the mountains in the middle of winter. That's pure genius!
If you have a problem, blame the experts at the Pentagon that advised the President not to shoot down the balloon over land. I'm sure you know better than our top career military commanders.
CHINA, "A country we depend on?"
Seriously. Wtf
Why not at least feed it fake information if you're just going to let it fly damn near half the US
That balloon spying capabilities were disable soons it entered our air space, most likely emp jam or ddos attack.
@@oscarsalgado1238 "That balloon spying capabilities were disable soons it entered our air space, most likely emp jam or ddos attack."
who briefed you on this?
How do we know it wasn't? Let's say we did, do you want to make it public so the Chinese would know it's intelligence is compromised or do you let it fly collecting false data and not say anything.
I doubt it was set up to receive Faux, noisemax or Oan.
So the balloon just teleported past some states?!
Here's a stupid question : How would China react if an American balloon was flying over their territory ?
Not a stupid question. Also, I think we all know EXACTLY how it would go...
....oh the irony.
Anyone with a brain knows that China would likely shoot anything without asking then lie about it, especially from whom.
If the fictional balloon was from Japan they would say it the US if its from India or austriallia they would say its from the US, if its from the US they would say its from the US
After it was shot down. They wouldn't give a nation a chance to explain.
In this case the US requested information about it, and China directly lied about what it was, horribly i might add. Then when it was shot down they threatened and got pissed about it. Showing they were intending to retrieve the balloon had the US not likely jammed it and then shot it down.
99 Luftballons
Should have been there within an hour??!! Why days later?? Weird
Actually DCLIFE.. I have 2 college degrees.. one in biology and one in computer science and business. I understand physics.. you can go 6 miles off the coast in a couple of hours.. I have done it deep sea fishing..so why 2 days?? What was on that balloon?
“ urgent “
balloon might drown
Have they found any aliens. Aliens were piloting that Balloon.
You mean illegal alien.
⭐⭐George Santos claims he IS the balloon because he's white and full of hot air.⭐⭐
this will be an episode of greatest air battles on history channel
Im suprised the balloon floated this long since it was made in China
Where's your laptop made ?
😂😂😂😂😂👍😎🏴
@@Obeijin Japan 🇯🇵
Everything you used, made in China. 🤣🤣
Designed in Cupertino assembled China. Key difference.
Year of the rabbit? The balloon could have been bunny shaped a true Trojan Horse.
Amazing. It was allowed to traverse across the whole U.S. and many strategic areas, then they shoot it down over the ocean and weren’t ready to retrieve it?
U.S. Navy vs. Chinese submarines to recover the box!
Wish I was in that balloon. It would be the end -- but man what a view thanks cousin eddie
You good? You need to talk? Lol
Invest in VR, kid. Talking like you're suicidal is a turn off btw and it's not going to woo the ladies. Cheer up m8.
That being said I'll take a pair of those shoes Eddie gave Clark 😃
@@jrporter50 "I'll have some of the yella. And don't get cheap on me"
Urgent Race to recover it? Who are we racing against, it's a few miles off the Carolina Coastline.... China must be on the way over to claim it...
The balloon should have been brought down in a controlled descent so that its payload could have been recovered intact. For example, solid carbon dioxide or similar substance that upon vaporizing displaces the inert gas in the balloon that escapes through a hole in the balloon so that the balloon slowly descends to earth.
silly. blow up a big big balloon and then poke it with a pin. whats going to happen?
I guess maybe next time they should consult you
It was extremely high in altitude. Because I was wondering why not fly a helo over it or something slow and simple. But it was waaaaay up there
US is not that advanced yet. Seriously, it went clear across the US OF A. Who knows what it released into our atmosphere.
Could have used a laser to burn a hole in it. It either catch the ballon on fire, or it would slowly fall from the leak
“Suspected “ chines balloon 😂. Please USA is this the 60s? Give the world a break. How dumb do you think the world is? And you actually let it fly all that way before shooting down???? Wait for what?? What damage on the ground?
It's blowing a gale. They won't find much.
Scary if balloons why not nukes
1:48 Ah, I see. So there are several more states that it just completely skipped over somehow while traversing the country
I am less concerned about the balloon than I am the electronics and if anything can be recovered from it's memory, and what it's designed purpose was
People are never satisfied.
Curious question. depending on the payload, electronics etc. is it better to shoot it down over land or water to recover data. i doubt that the instrumentation is encased like a black box on an airliner. Salt water can destroy electronics then again so can hitting the ground from 60,000 feet. i have not seen the Pentagon give a rational explanation of this which would answer i a lot of questions about why they waited. There is a limited debris field if a balloon is punctured and the payload falls down (maybe a few square miles at most). So the argument that they didnt want to hit a population center or property just doesnt fly (no pun intended). i smell coverup.
Ding ding ding! You are one of the few Americans left with critical thinking skills.
If done on land, wouldn't equipments smash to the ground and break into pieces? Nothing left to investigate
It just seems people who are super into government conspiracy theories won't accept answers no matter how rational. A helicopter can go up approx 25k feet. That balloon was 60k damn feet waaaaay up there lol. There isnt much in the way of a controlled descent for it. IF they shot it down over land, absolutely it would have been more likely to destroy what it carried, as well as hit civilian property or people causing injuries or death. So, given those two arguments alone, to shoot it down over land would more likely destroy what it had, and or also cause harm to civilians, Shooting it down over sea with boats/ships in place to recover it is most reasonable. But it's like people will just straight to any conclusion for a conspiracy theory.
@@slomo4672 a deflated balloon will have lots of air resistance which will act as a parachute.
@@slomo4672 in my opinion, this appears like they are covering up the facts that it's just a weather balloon but wanted to keep us in a state on fear and hate of China so we wouldn't complain about another increase in military spending.
I believe in communist China or Russia socialist with more values, ideals and ball....s....s
Like looking for that one fortune cookie in a cookie factory
PEACE
Translation - we gotta go clean up our DOD funded boondoggle distraction from Hunter's laptop and classified documents. 😆
Why distract from a laptop that doesn't exist?
Donald already sold all the valuable documents..
@@stratostatic Oh it exists alright! Boy does it exist! 😀 better build some more Chinese Balloons! 😂
America 🇺🇸 province of China 🇨🇳 new history of discovering the 69 dash line 🤣🤣🤣
If this had happened with 45 as President, he would have shot it down the minute it entered our airspace, and he would have even led the mission, personally piloting Air Force One.
This happened three times during Trump and we're just now finding out about it.
Trump did NOTHING, by the way; didn't even tell you!
And potentially have a pathogen or weapon land on civilians? How many years of homeland security do you have under your belt?
It happened 3X under trump , it’s was keep a secret by his administration 😊.my oh my MAGa people are so stupid 😊
@@jotarokujo4335 if you're referring to the OP, he was being sarcastic
@@woodstream6137 I would hope some cause I’ll read some comments that seem like they are out of The Onion but they are actually being serious
China should pay US and other countries because of unauthorized and dangerous flying airship (costs for decalaring no-fly zones, land hazards, materials and equipments used, and manpower duties to eliminate that airship balloon.) That is dangerous act of China we should not forget the critical scenes of 911.
I always tell my kids, don't air to air missle your stuff and it will be easier to clean up.
She is a bit dramatic. On the other hand, this entire thing is just weird as hell. I can understand why most Americans, including myself am wondering why this thing can travel into our airspace without being confronted.
Urgent race? With whom?
China is angry about USA shooting this down but if ours was floating across their sovereign land. They would’ve shut it down much quicker and that is not a guess.
as goofy as it gets
How did this thing cross Canada without them noticing it? And my second question what if China sounds like millions of these over US?
China seems to forget that a visa is required when entering into another country.
Wyoming and Kansas? What about Colorado or Nebraska? Did they lose it for one state. Can't get to Kansas without those two.
They keep saying roughly the size of three buses, when actuality you can probably fit 8 buses in it because it's the width of three buses. You can fit two-and-a-half buses above those three and two-and-a-half buses below. Come on people 'do the math'. It's roughly the size of eight buses !!!
The 3 buses was likely in reference to the actual body not the solar panels.
Япония уже один раз полезла , получили за Харбор 😢😢😢теперь Китай лезет ? 😢😢🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can we send an invoice to China for our expenses? As good neighbor’s, hopefully China provides us the data they collected. 👍
Photographs of trailer parks and Walmarts..
How ridiculous! It should have been shot down in Alaska. Period. We were watching it while giving it time to obtain all the information the wanted. Sickening.
A trading partner that hates our guts and condemns our political and economic systems.
China respond was more like a thief caught stealing threat to revenge owner.😂
I was surprised to see the three stooges come back with a military/political skit.
In india from the year 2014to 2022 all the Elections Process FBI investigation is necessary through the UNO please protect the democracy in india
They should have shot a couple holes in the balloon and then they had one big thing to recover instead of blasting it out of the sky and not having anything to recover.
Yeah and I want to know if our government will be transparent with data about what equipment the balloon was actually carrying. One has to understand the Atmospheric physics how air currents generally moving West to East propell Weather balloon across the sky. Ask any hot air balloon pilot how they 'steer' a bag full of hot air.🙄
Watch your Chinese neighbors carefully
SEE HOW OUTLANDISH THIS REPORT IS
AND THE SHEEP POPULATION JUST BUYING IT
China captured a US submersible in international waters , we should have done the same
Everybody is focused on balloon im concerned about what appears to be a missle hitting the satellite portion thats where the technology is
Oh so dramatic …Martha Radshitz . I’m surprised she’s still a reporter.
It should have been taken down before Alaska or over Alaska.
Why not a few bullets to force the balloon to slowly descend and soft land?
They couldn't do that because the balloon could've contained bombs or poisonous gas inside it.
@@treytonberrycloth354 But the rocket that hit it obliterated it.
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Wouldn't a few bullets have been safer and cause a soft landing? Just a thought.
@@_SamUSA_ yes it would but those are chances the law enforcement wasn't going to take at that time for the public safety.
Admitted. Meteorlogical.
The true state of satellites revealed!
How much that missile cost compared to the balloon! I guest they couldn't use cannon fire , what a joke🤨😆
They need to watch the movie up cartoon lol
Ill have to send my "civilian" airship the size of three buses over to china and get thier reaction🤣😂. Im sure it wouldn't have been handled any better..
Race before it hits land so people will know how fake this was
Well that’s dumb cause the balloon made it across right over the states where our nuclear silos are at did you all know that 🤔🇲🇽🇺🇸 stay ready to keep from getting ready 💪🏼
You can crawl out from under you beds now, red state America, the bad ol' balloon is gone.
Deepening?
It flew over Kansas?? Maybe they made a big mistake, and should be looking for a body....Was it The Wizard of Oz?
i say after it is recovered and studied, put it back together in working order and send it back to china with some EXTRA stuff for China that they would die to have.