Originally Posted by
m0nkfish
I think you might be clutching at straws with this one. You say these balloons have been floating around the world for the last 10 years... They have been watching and waiting for an F22 to come along and shoot them down, really!!?
Do the research. The hangars and launch facilities were publicly identified in 2013. No doubt western intelligence knew of them long before that. They've been spotted a handful of times over the past few years. All in the public domain and linked to earlier in this thread. They are a hot topic now just because the sky happened to be clear enough over Montana for someone on the ground to take a photo of one at around 60,000ft. Had that photo not been published on the web I doubt we'd be chatting about these things now.