Drones Shut Down Strategic Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Operation recalls China’s surveillance balloon of 2023. by Lloyd Billingsley
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“Unknown drone activity forced one of the U.S.’s most critical military installations to shut down for several hours late Friday evening and Saturday morning,” Newsweek reported on Monday. The incident, confirmed by base officials, “prompted heightened security measures and temporarily halted operations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.” Home to the 88th Air Base Wing, Wright-Patterson is “one of the largest and most strategically important bases in the U.S., tasked with advanced research, intelligence, and operations.”
The shut-down follows sightings of unidentified “SUV-sized” drones in New Jersey but the Biden White House, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security claim there’s no threat to national security. Locals and politicians alike want the government to shoot down the drones, but Biden DHS boss Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that’s not possible.
The drones pose “no threat or nefarious activity,” but they can’t be shot down because “our authorities are limited by the United States Coast Guard in the maritime environment, the United States Secret Service in its protection of our national leaders, US Customs and Border Protection with respect to the border.” And civilians attempting to shoot down a drone “would be dangerous.”
Embattled Americans might compare that response to the massive surveillance balloon China sent across the country in early 2023, which the Biden-Harris administration allowed to enter U.S. air space unannounced. China’s craft was first spotted by photographers while overflying Montana. The Billings Gazette published the photos, quickly picked up by national media. Only then did American officials respond.
Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told CNN the US government has been “tracking the balloon for several days as it made its way over the northern United States.” The balloon’s flight path had passed over “a number of sensitive sites,” but does not present a “significant intelligence gathering risk.” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had also advised against shooting down China’s balloon while it was over land.
On that course, China got a close look at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, where nuclear weapons are stored, and surveilled Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska, home of U.S. Strategic Command. China’s balloon also checked out Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, home to the B-2 stealth bomber.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley recommended against “kinetic action” to bring down the balloon, CBS News reported, because of the danger of debris hitting the ground, and because the “the U.S. government had determined the balloon does not pose a threat.” China’s Communist government claimed the balloon was for “mainly meteorological purposes,” that the craft had “limited self-steering capability,” and that “westerlies” blew it off course. Gen. Milley faithfully parroted China’s claims.
“Those winds are very high,” Milley told CBS News, “the particular motor on that aircraft can’t go against those winds at that altitude.” Pressed as to whether the aircraft was on a Chinese intelligence mission, Milley said, “I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn’t transmit any intelligence back to China.” For a different perspective consider Dr. Marina Miron, a researcher in the War Studies Department at Kings College London.
Dr. Miron earned her PhD at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. She has advised NATO on counterinsurgency and serves at the Kings College Centre for Military Ethics. As Dr. Miron told the BBC, “the balloon could be controlled by operators on the ground, who could raise or lower the craft to pick up different wind currents. You would want to be able to make it linger over a spot to collect data. This is something you can do with a balloon which you cannot do with a satellite.” [emphases added].”
The ground operators could be any of the nearly 300,000 Chinese students now in the USA.
Nobody leaves China without approval of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which sends “students” on a mission. For example, Juan Tang, supposedly a cancer researcher at UC Davis, was a member of the CCP and the Liberation Army (PLA) the force that slaughtered peaceful demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Ground operators could also be part of the more than 10 million illegals Biden-Harris allowed into the country, with no criminal background or security checks. That invasion took place under the auspices of DHS boss Mayorkas, supposedly on guard for the nation’s security. Mayorkas, Milley, Austin et al are Soviet-style zampolits, political officers for Biden. Consider also the response from the CIA.
According to “former” CIA operations officer Laura Ballman, the drones might be “a classified exercise to test either evasion technology or detection technology in urban areas.” Ballman would be “shocked” if the drones turned out to be from the CIA because it is “not their mandate to operate in the United States.” As Ballman to know, they do so anyway.
Obama CIA boss John Brennan titled his memoir Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad. Note Brennan’s order of battle, and consider John Gentry’s Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences, released in 2023. According to the former CIA analyst, the forces that triggered the attack on Trump “remain intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.”
Donald Trump has now been elected president of the United States, but Joe Biden occupies the White House until January 20. The Delaware Democrat claims the Chinese Communists are “not bad folks” and those balloons and drones pose no threat to America. As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
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