Chinese spy balloon

[Ketchup]

So why is it being allowed to just float across the planet? Is the airspace like that of water in a river, free for all? 
 

How do they know it’s china based?

 

Serious questions. 

[oneshot 1]

Chinese know it came from China but are saying it is civilian. 

I don't care shoot the dang thing down. 

I have never been so mad in my life until this and there is nothing I can do.  Bad thing is the ones that can don't care. 

oneshot 

[Johnsfolly]

[netboy]

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

So, it apparently went over my subdivision, many pictures of it from others in the area of Festus. They all look similar to the others being shared. Are bank cameras being used to photograph it? I seen closer/cleaner pictures of the lunar eclipse. Anyhow, I was hoping Wish was delivering the solar panels I ordered a year ago.  

[Flysmallie]

2 hours ago, Ketchup said:

So why is it being allowed to just float across the planet? Is the airspace like that of water in a river, free for all? 
 

How do they know it’s china based?

 

Serious questions. 

I think it’s allowed to float along because they have no idea how to get it down. 
 

China is just testing our response. 

[Terrierman]

I've got a different take on it.  If anyone in the DOD command chain thought that thing presented any kind of threat you can count on two things:

1.  You wouldn't know anything about it.

2.  It would have been taken down long ago and you wouldn't know anything about that either.

[Flysmallie]

13 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I've got a different take on it.  If anyone in the DOD command chain thought that thing presented any kind of threat you can count on two things:

1.  You wouldn't know anything about it.

2.  It would have been taken down long ago and you wouldn't know anything about that either.

We didn’t no anything about it until civilians spotted it. The government was already tracking it at the time. 

[fishinwrench]

When it was first spotted how did they immediately determine that it was a Chinese vessel ?    Did they just zoom in and say...." Look at this POS, must have been made in China" ?

Or did they start contacting other countries.... beginning with Russia....to see if anyone would claim it ? 

Or were we (they) contacted, by someone in China, before it ever got here, and told that it was on its way ?   

I'm gonna assume the latter.   

Either way let's hope that it isn't dumping the second round of Covid, or worse. 🙄 

And lastly, why is everything about it CLASSIFIED and CONFIDENTIAL ?    

[Ketchup]

Does anyone have an idea of the diameter of it, and how fast it is moving?