During the Vietnam War, the U.S. dropped sensors from the air along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The sensors embedded themselves in the ground and then “phoned home”. Their antennas were made to resemble tree branches and other vegetation. The sensors detected seismic disturbances created by passing North Vietnamese supply trucks and picked up voices or sometimes both. The data allowed American forces to detect movement and vector in strikes on North Vietnamese forces.
That was over fifty years ago. Technology has come a long way. Sensors dropped from the air today can relay much more data and send it directly home via satellite communications rather than an orbiting relay aircraft. They can sense movement, detect temperature variations, and even tiny amounts of radiation.
Which brings us to the infamous Chinese spy balloon Joe Biden let drift around over our nuke bases and cross the width of the country before he ordered it shot down.
The balloon came down in the water off the East Coast. It and its payload were recovered by the American military. An assessment was made of the remains. Details on that classified assessment have been made public recently.
Most of the press coverage has focused on the fact that the balloon had a lot of U.S. tech on board. For example, it was communicating with Beijing via Iridium satellite communications. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the balloon was carrying gliders. That means it was carrying devices that could be dropped in flight and then glide down to a safe landing on the ground.
“Sensor Drop. A high-altitude balloon can drop autonomous gliders that travel to land near targets of interest. The gliders can be outfitted with sensors to detect anything from micro vibrations (i.e. passing trucks, tanks) to radiation or chemical particles (affluents) in the air. Targets might include military, nuclear, or chemical production or storage facilities. A balloon could deploy dozens of gliders. With a conservative 10-to-1 glide ratio, a GPS guided glider released at 60,000 feet could travel over 100 miles to its target.”
We don’t know exactly what those gliders carried because they had all been dropped before the balloon came down. The container within the balloon’s payload, which held them, was empty when it was recovered. Presumably, that means those gliders are somewhere on American soil. Of course, that could be anywhere, but I’ll put my money on somewhere near the key facilities located at all those American nuclear facilities the balloon was allowed to circle by China Joe.
There is nothing theoretical about any of this. Publicly available, unclassified information shows the Chinese were conducting tests involving the dropping of “micro-gliders” from high-altitude balloons over Inner Mongolia at least as early as 2020. In the words of the study reporting on the tests: “The purpose of the micro glider is to be launched from a super pressure balloon at high altitude, glide to the target position to collect data and upload data to the staying balloon.”
While traversing the country, the Chinese spy balloon flew over multiple military bases, including Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, one of three bases that maintains and operates Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles; Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, the headquarters of US Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear forces; and Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina, which hosts two nuclear submarine squadrons. It did not simply drift aimlessly over these facilities. High-altitude balloons can be remotely controlled to change altitude and thereby catch different wind currents and move in different directions. Over Malmstrom for instance the balloon was tracked through multiple figure-eight patterns.
Consider the possible implications of what we know. Chinese emplaced sensors could now be located on U.S. military bases that house nuclear weapons and the forces whose job it is to deliver those weapons in time of war. Those sensors could be disguised to look like almost anything and to lie dormant, sending data home only when queried or only when certain kinds of indicators are acquired.
Such sensors could detect the movement of nuclear weapons. They could monitor recall networks for the flight crews of nuclear bombers. They could detect all of the sounds, smells, and vibrations associated with a bomber force getting ready to fly a mission. And, they could send all of that information directly to Beijing quite likely without our knowledge.
A recent “threat snapshot” conducted by the House Committee on Homeland Security found that the threat from Chinese espionage inside the United States increased significantly during the four years of the Biden administration. As bad as that is, we should face the fact that we likely still do not have a complete handle on how much damage has been done.
There may be Chinese sensors on U.S. nuke bases. Is anybody looking for them?
In previous emails and comments I have often written that Biden's actions constituted treason, for which he should be prosecuted. I have also written that Biden would pardon himself and his family before he left office. I was only partially correct, because he didn't pardon himself. I suppose his rationale, or, more likely, that of his handlers/puppeteers, was that, since the DOJ had concluded that Biden wasn't sufficiently mentally competent to answer to charges that he had mishandled classified documents, the same circumstances would certainly apply to any crimes he committed during his term in office. Either that or he would die from whatever ailments that have been plaguing him for the last few years before the DOJ could indict him.
In a response to another Sam Faddis article, “The Mob Has Nothing On Joe,” I wrote that Trump was the fly in the ointment when it comes to Lady Justice wielding her sword in retribution to the Biden family's criminal enterprises. I pointed out that Trump had allowed the Hillary Monster to escape prosecution even though it was established beyond a reasonable doubt (there were published photos of the smashed phones) that she and her staff had, among other nefarious deeds, literally smashed with hammers the evidence of their attempts to undermine the 2016 election. As bad as the Hillary Monster’s Mob’s actions were, they were more on the order of a kid stealing a box of girl scout cookies when compared to the criminal machinations of, at least, some of the Biden family, including the Big Guy. My prediction that a Trump administration would not prosecute old Joe was validated, in part, by Trump in a NBC interview in which, when asked the question by the talking head concerning prosecuting Biden, he said his retribution would come in the form of his administration’s successes.
Whether or not this country goes to war with China over its boundary extending efforts in the South China Sea and/or its stated path to reclaim Taiwan and the sensor devices postulated by Sam Faddis in this article to have been inserted from the Chinese balloon into some of our most sensitive military facilities are found, Biden should be prosecuted for treason regardless of the success of the Trump administration. If he is dead, he should be tried in absentia. The Biden name should be blackened forever in the annals of history. Why? Those people that voted for a man who had become a multimillionaire on a public servant’s salary, had a well documented reputation as a liar and plagiarist, and who frequently couldn’t put together a cogent sentence should be reminded that votes have consequences. Voting for a man with a record like his is akin to picking up a rattle snake. You’re going to pay a price for it and it won’t be fun. In the case of Biden’s connection to China, it may be fatal.
And what do you call an Administration which allowed the gross compromise of National Security.....incompetence or treasonous?