10thYrSr said:10thYrSr said:
I photographed a spy balloon over my house. Looked like a bright star in the evening sky. I wouldn't have noticed it but my daughter pointed it out. She said she saw a star, and sure enough there was a bright point in the sky. I took out my astronomy binoculars and saw it was white and spherical. It wasn't moving very fast, but it moved from the eliptical plane (the path that all planets take across the sky) towards the south very slowly. It looked almost like this in my binoculars:
https://www.businessinsider.com/spy-balloons-how-they-work-stratospheric-balloon-technology-racetrack-surveillance-2020-3
Not the same, but similar. After exhaustive research I found it was a spy balloon that flies at a height aircraft can't reach, so it is essentially unable to be attacked.ill try to find the article, but apparently it can stay aloft for quite some time (months) and is able to mildly steer itself.
I can post a picture, but it would just look like a white dot in the blue sky, but the exif data is intact.
Look Guys, Here is a post I made in June about the spy balloon over Texas. Trust me, these things were here and I saw one.
And you are certain it wasn't a weather balloon? Is it possible that this in fact was a "spy" balloon and that the government knew about it and chose to keep it a secret?
Is this Chinese balloon recently only revealed because it leaked into media reports? Have the Chinese been doing this before now and this is the only one we know about?