Chinese Spy Balloon or Alien Invasion? The Truth Is Out There in Latest U.S. Media Circus

BRIAN SOCKINGTON: The mysterious appearance of multiple Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena over United States airspace has left fighter pilots baffled and created sweeping hysteria across the country and around the world. Fuelled by around-the-clock live coverage, mainstream news outlets pointed to Chinese Communist Party spy programs – or an incoming alien invasion – depending on the effect on ratings numbers. Top brass military officials refused to identify the ‘balloon-like’ objects, using descriptions ranging from ‘small and metallic’, ‘large and lightweight’, octagonal and ‘container-like’ and carrying a payload the size of between 1 and 4 buses. Rupert Holesworthy contributes to the continuous, panicked reporting…

RUPERT HOLESWORTHY: Are we living through the start of a War of the Worlds? Increasing reports of mysterious unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAPs, have quickly been labelled a threat to the lives of American citizens – prior to being identified – in a very on-brand, US government reaction that has stoked heated political debate – mostly about how quickly the objects should be blown out of the sky. 

On the 4th of February, a balloon-like object flying across the United States, was labelled as a Chinese Spy Balloon by the mainstream media, before the Biden administration scrambled F-22 fighter jets to shoot it down off the coast of South Carolina – using Sidewinder AIM-9X heat seeking, infrared missiles costing $472,000 a shot. Democrats hailed the decision as a brave presidential masterstroke, Republicans wondered why it took so long to shoot down the object, and patriots celebrated INNformation across the nation.

In the political and media circus that followed, the Chinese would claim the object as a wayward weather balloon, which upon its recovery, was found to be equipped with US parts and measuring instruments. The following 3 events also occurred:

• February 10: A UAP is shot down over Deadhorse, Alaska.
• February 11: A second UAP is shot down over Yukon, Canada
• February 12: A third UAP is detected over Lake Huron, Michigan, two missiles are fired to shoot this object down.

Despite NORAD reporting radar anomalies, the FAA shutting down airspace over Montana, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau promising to recover debris from the objects, President Biden enacting the first peacetime airspace shootdowns in US history, and military consensus that the last 3 objects didn’t look anything like the first object, all three searches for the UAPs were called off – and no one cared anyway as the Chinese spy balloon story continued to be widely reported around the world. 

So what were these UAP’s, why have they been sent to the US, and from where? Audio from inside the cockpit of the jet that eventually shot down the fourth UAP hasn’t helped. Neither has the White House. Politicians were left to clarify the issue – and the media were busy doing their ‘media’ things.

The very American “shoot first and ask questions later” approach, should reassure its allies that the world’s greatest superpower is still willing and able to defend itself – and others – from emerging threats, weather real or otherwise.