so you see the bright side of the balloon and then you see the dark side of the balloon, just like you see the dark side of the moon. from here, corey tracked the balloon back to the most likely launch site hainan island in the south china sea. looks like on the day of the launch there was cloud cover. and if i were going to launch a balloon, i would ve chosen a cloudy day to do that in orderto minimise the chance of detection. china claimed the balloon was a civilian airship used for scientific research such as meteorology. the balloon that we saw was not a weather balloon. it s far larger with a lot more complexity. in terms of the payload package, it s very large. you know, it s been compared to multiple school buses. the balloon is suspected to have been gathering what s known as signals intelligence.
looks like on the day of the launch there was cloud cover. and if i were going to launch a balloon, i would ve chosen a cloudy day to do that in order to minimise the chance of detection. china claimed the balloon was a civilian airship used for scientific research such as meteorology. the balloon that we saw was not a weather balloon. it s far larger with a lot more complexity. in terms of the payload package, it s very large. you know, it s been compared to multiple school buses. the balloon is suspected to have been gathering what s known as signals intelligence. if you re trying to pick up cellphone transmissions or understand communication patterns, then i could theoretically see where the balloon could be a useful platform for that. the balloon appeared to be equipped to do just that. according to the us
for scientific research such as meteorology. the balloon that we saw was not a weather balloon. it s far larger with a lot more complexity. in terms of the payload package, it s very large. you know, it s been compared to multiple school buses. the balloon is suspected to have been gathering what s known as signals intelligence. if you re trying to pick up cellphone transmissions or understand communication patterns, then i could theoretically see where the balloon could be a useful platform for that. the balloon appeared to be equipped to do just that. according to the us state department, it had multiple antennas, likely capable of collecting and geolocating communications. corey s research shows that at one point the spy balloon was only around 80 miles from an air force base in montana which houses nuclear missiles. i am sitting in my driveway and this
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coast guard and navy at sea recovery boats and they ll pull everything they can in and clear that scene so then the other ship, the pathfinder can pass over and map out with sonar, the bottom of the sea floor and see where the rest of the debris is. then they ll grid that area out and from there commence the dive operations. john: dave, the search area is said to be 15 square football fields around, which is actually not too bad when you consider how much ocean there is out there. i assume that pieces of the balloon would have floated away, but that the payload package probably came down intact, at least until it hit the water. do you expect that that would be in more of a concentrated debris field than the balloon itself? well, coming from that altitude and the speed it came down at, water turns into, acts just like concrete, it s pretty hard, it s going to break stuff