Did we Really Find Out what was in the Balloon?

Al Ritter

I ask that as a question for a reason, do we really trust anything that comes from the Whitehouse anymore or not? It is now being said that there was a high resolution surveillance camera on board, solar panels for charging the batteries, high gain antennas for collecting and  transmitting the data they collected, and the Whitehouse was pretty vague about explaining some sort of explosive charge presumably for a self-destruct mode.

Now if you recall the talking heads at the Whitehouse in conjunction with the Pentagon told us when the balloon was over Montana that NORAD couldn’t track a balloon at all. Now we find out that NORAD did in fact track the balloon from its initial launch from an island off the southern tip of China. And they wonder why they have lost the trust of the American people.

Now IF and I say if because I doubt we are getting the complete story from either government. If China claimed it was a weather balloon, why did it need a high resolution camera? That would be the smoking gun to prove it is a spy device. The balloon was 200 feet in diameter, and the solar array was a wide as a commercial airliner.

Questions remain unanswered as to how the path of the balloon is controlled, after all the jet stream travels at 110 mph to 250 mph. How would a propulsion device change its course?

If the intended path was to be close to Hawaii and Guam (both of our territories anyway) and instead travelled North to go over Alaska and this so called weather balloon in fact did have a self-destruct capability, why wasn’t it activated by China before it flew into the United States?

Many unanswered questions still, but I doubt either government will give us complete answers.

Read More from the military here:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-military-recovers-priority-sensors-electronics-from-downed-chinese-spy-balloon_5055900.html

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xgsbuGYmtg&t=450s