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Balloongate — Inside the Pentagon’s Mishandling of UAPs and Balloons
The facts:
· Adversary drones and balloons, from terrestrial competitors, have for years made off with a treasure trove of U.S. intelligence.
· The damage to the U.S. and the strategic implications are so severe that we may not grasp its extent for decades.
· China, and perhaps others, have used the Western stigma surrounding unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) and UFOs to capitalize on Department of Defense inaction and system paralysis. This stigma, knowing that the DoD would snicker and turn their nose up at UAP reports, was successfully targeted and leveraged by China.
· To confuse matters, not all reported UAPs, especially those reported by military aviators, are adversary drones or balloons. Many sightings remain unexplainable.
Balloons for Electronic Surveillance
In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy assisted with the development of the prototype jet that would go on to become the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, nineteen SA-2 surface-to-air missile sites were constructed on the island supported by P-14 “Tall King” radars.
But how could the U.S. military “test” the enemy radars’ sensitivity?
