Chinese Spy Balloon - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 2/3/23

because now there are two of them. These are high altitude balloons, and they are considered a key delivery platform for secret nuclear strikes on America's electric grid. I know this is something that George Nori has been very vocal about over many, many years, talking about the need to strengthen our electrical grids from an EMP attack and the

threat of a balloon launched electromagnetic pulse attack. These have been warm about by Congressional EMP, the Congressional EMP Commission, and inside the military at a number of years ago. Back in twenty fifteen, a report from the American Leadership and Policy Foundation. Air Force Major David Stuckenberg, one of the nation's leading EMP experts, wrote extensively about the threat

balloons carrying bombs pose to national security. All right, let's go to Billings, Montana Noles and welcome Jeff on the Wildcard Line. Jeff, Welcome to coast. How are you hi? Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, things are kind of crazy around here. They shut down our airspace Wednesday and diverted flights and they prevented a flight from taking off on time, So it's pretty crazy. Fighter jets landing at

the airport and everything. Usually we get the Air National Guard will do stuff, but we had I think they just have F eighteens, but we had the F twenty twos, which those are the big boys. So lots of stuff going on here. Did you did you happen to catch sight of one of these balloons or were the balloon rather? I think I might have, UM, but I just thought it was like a just a weather balloon, And then I get home it's like, no, this is bigger and higher. So UM, I didn't think it'd be that high up

in the air. But you know, with perspective, UM, you think it's closer and that's something small, but it was higher and something a lot larger. Um. And when I heard the news. My um thoughts immediately, I kind of a World War two buff And these aren't the first balloons to cross the Pacific and get here. Um, Japan launched probably like ten thousand balloons. Only three hundred made it here, but those were loaded with incendiary devices and explosives.

And yeah, we don't really like these drifting in our airspace. And um, if it's China that sent them, they're probably testing us to see, well, how are they going to react to this? And if we're just letting him fly by, it's like, what's to prevent him from putting well the e MP thing or canisters of who knows what on there to just start dropping here. So yeah, I don't

like it in our airspace. And I know our governor's not very happy about it either, because he didn't hear about it until it was already in the middle of our state. And but he's not happy that this is like right over our land here and above. He found out about it right when I was above buildings and that's the largest city in Montana. And I guess there's

a video tonight of somebody catching UM. I didn't get that good of a look at it because I think the servers were jammed from people looking at it, but it looked like the witness heard some jets flying. This wouldn't have been a balloon because that's a drift that's long gone, that's drifted somewhere else. But they heard fighter jets and then some sort of explosion and he can kind of see this trail where it looks like something falling from the sky. So I don't know. I saw that.

I saw that video and they were claiming this was the balloon, but as you say, no, it had drifted. It was long gone by that. So I'm one testing some sort of a weapon type delivery system to if another one comes. Were they testing some sort of system to knock it out of the air, This would be a good place to test it if UM kind of get practice for drills to knock it out, because there's enough blowback from UM. I know our congressman wasn't happy about it either, so I think if one of another

one of these drifts, they're probably gonna take it out. Well, there's one coming up apparently from There's been another one spotted in Latin America that's coming up. So now I don't know why is it out of the question that they would shoot this thing out of the sky because it's a balloon. I mean, it's okay, it's the size of three buzzes. Apparently this idea that their concerned. The Pentagon is concerned that the debris field could possibly injure people on the ground. But I mean, when is that

a consideration. I mean, you have to be careful, obviously, but when you have one of these vehicles, let's say, with monitoring and surveilling capabilities, flying over nuclear bases and so forth, if an airplane were to do that, the air Force wouldn't wouldn't hesitate, you know, to uh, you know, first they try to establish radio contact I suppose, and they would try to escort it out, but if it persisted,

they would shoot that thing out of the sky. Why are they so hesitant space in Montana that this would have been the place to do it. I don't know if they can figure out, like the wind um because it is really high up there, they can kind of

get an estimate of where it would drift. And I don't know if it's possible to get the balloon um like put a hole in it so that it loses air and if it's if it's able to land sort of gently, we could retrieve it and see what alls in the like somehow get that technology to see what's in it and get more information on any capabilities it might have to have a payload or whatever. We just need to get more information on what this thing is.

So I don't know if there's any way to have it have some sort of controlled landing, um like just puncture the balloon. It probably would have who knows of that atmosphere, It might have just collapsed and it would have probably would have been pretty ruined by the time it got down anyway, So I don't think they could have. But yeah, and how much damage could could have even a giant balloon do I mean, how much damage could

it do? I don't know. Yeah, And again we may have plenty of time to get out of the way. I would think, Yeah, it'd be the stuff hanging off of it. Um, the balloon itself is that's probably not going to hurt anything. But if it's what two or three school bus is worth, it's not like a meteor strike because it's not coming in at like, how are many miles per hour meteorites come in and just be free falling, and I really don't see how much damage that could do if it landed like in a neighborhood.

But the odds are it's going to land sort of in the middle of nowhere, and so I think the risk there's probably more risk keeping it up there and just letting it do whatever it's going to do. All right, Jeff, great call. I appreciate you checking in from Billings, Montana. Thank you, very insightful. Howard is West of the Rockies in Vancouver, Washington. Howard, Welcome to Coast. Good morning, Richard.

I think I saw history repeat itself this afternoon. There was a rather heated press conference between a kind of guy general and the media this afternoon, and they were insisting that he told them exactly where the you know what position the Chinese bloom was in, and he just slatly refused to tell them. It got it got rather nasty. Now, whether he may have been have been unaware of it, but he was repeating an eighty year old strategy that

was used in World War Two. The latter part of World War two, when the Japanese started manufacturing the two god Boon bombs and they sent up thousands of these things, as the previous color was talking about, they were landing all over the western United States, and the strategy that was the War Department used then was to just simply classify the whole thing. They would not allow the media to report any of this. The idea was that they didn't want the enemy to know how effective or accurate

their balloons were. And they they actually did uh succeed in creating some damage. The Yes, there were casualties, there were people killed. Yes, there was a family attending a church picnic. It was in I believe it was in the spring of nineteen forty five, and they came across one of these things. I believe it was in the Willamit National Forest, and I believe it killed about three.

They started messing with this thing. They didn't know what it was, that hadn't it hadn't been reported, and it detonated. I sum believe it killed three of them. But I believe that the strategy of just keeping quiet about it, that general or the Panic for that matter, really doesn't know what the Chinese know about the you know, they may not know it just exactly what the position of their balloon was. And he didn't want to let him know if he knew that if he said it there

or they'd hear it. So anyway, I thought that was a rather interesting situation there. How this rerepeats itself like that. Indeed, Howard, great call, thank you for that. That makes a certain

amount of sense. Although I don't know the technology that the Japanese had, whether they were just sending these over and whether they had any way of tracking where they were once they were in the United States, or whether they were basically sort of working blind, whereas here, obviously these surveillance balloons are there too, specifically surveill I believe, and they would have they would know the Communist Chinese

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