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52 3 Chinese Spy Ballons in Trump Admin

The 3 Chinese Spy

Balloons Spotted During

The Trump

Administration Were

Initially Classified As

UFOs

Days after a Chinese spy balloon was
shot down over the Atlantic Ocean,
Pentagon officials are acknowledging the

surveillance devices have been seen
floating over the United States before.

In former President Donald Trump's
administration, at least three surveillance
balloons were detected traversing the
country, officials acknowledged in a
Sunday press conference. Bloomberg
reported the devices were initially

categorized by intelligence officials as
"So those balloons, so every day as a Jazeera, and was popularized during the
"unidentified aerial phenomena" before
NORAD commander it's my first World War. The F-22 that took down
being identified as balloons.
responsibility to detect threats to North China's surveillance balloon on Saturday
America," General Glen VanHerck, used the call sign 'FRANK01' in homage
In December, the Department of Defense
commander of the North American to a heroic pilot from WWI, known for
established the All-domain Anomaly
Aerospace Defense Command, said at shooting down over a dozen enemy
Resolution Office to identify
the Monday briefing regarding the balloons. []
"unidentified anomalous phenomena" —
Trump-era balloons. "I will tell you that
in space, in the air, on land, or in the sea
we did not detect those threats. And that's DEBUNKED: The Earth Will
— that may threaten national security.
a domain awareness gap that we have to Go Dark For Two Weeks
The term UAP replaces the traditional
figure out. But I don't want to go into
"unidentified flying object" or UFO
further detail."
designation, as officials expect to
evaluate anomalies "across all domains."
General VanHerck said the intelligence
community was briefed after the
During his term as president, Trump
balloons were spotted during the Trump
promised to "take a good, strong look" at
administration and trained to assess
whether UFOs existed and, in 2020, the
similar threats, which contributed to the
Pentagon released formerly classified
recent balloon being detected more
footage of unexplained phenomena
quickly than previous incidents.
Trump called a "hell of a video," CBS
News reported.
As the latest known Chinese surveillance
device floated over the country last week In July 2015, a website called
Trump, however, denies the "NewsWatch33" wrote an article claiming
before being shot down off the South
balloons ever existed that Earth would have 15 days of complete
Carolina coast of Myrtle Beach, Trump
darkness that year. The website, which is
took aim at the Biden administration, actually a fake news site, was borrowing
In a Sunday interview with Fox News,
calling for officials to "SHOOT DOWN from an older version of the tale that has
Trump said the Biden administration lied
THE BALLOON!" been circulating for years, according to
about Chinese balloons being seen
debunking website Snopes. As we all know,
during his term because "they look so It is unclear if the spy balloons seen Earth did not actually experience that much
bad." darkness that year. (The article claimed that
during the Trump administration were
the alleged darkness was partly due to a
shot down, as limited details about the
"This never happened," he said. "It Jupiter-Venus conjunction, which actually
incidents were only made public this
would have never happened." week. The Pentagon declined to answer took place more than 500 million miles
apart.) Darkness occurs when the Earth
Insider's questions about the sightings rotates, causing the sun to "set" on the local
The Biden administration indicated
and representatives for Trump did not horizon. Brief periods of darkness can also
intelligence regarding the Trump-era
immediately respond to Insider's happen when the sun is totally obscured
balloons came to light after he left office
requests for comment. during total solar eclipses, which occur
and has extended an offer to brief the rarely in any particular spot on Earth. But
former President on the new information Balloon surveillance has been utilized as even during an eclipse, Earth is never
available, Politico reported. completely in the dark.
far back as the 1800s, according to Al