{"id":10149,"date":"2023-03-05T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2023-03-05T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T19:07:08","slug":"why-the-balloon-and-ufo-affairs-are-a-sputnik-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10149","title":{"rendered":"Why the balloon and UFO affairs are a Sputnik moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Balloons, it turns out, are already part of that US arsenal, with the Pentagon spending $3.8 billion over the past two years on them, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/05\/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a>. As industry expert George Howell&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7027973052286087169?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7027973052286087169%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;on LinkedIn, \u201cHigh Altitude Balloons are actually a pretty smart thing to invest in, they\u2019re cheap, easy to transport, can be fielded in large numbers and are payload agnostic,\u201d meaning that while they\u2019re most likely to be carrying cameras or radar, in certain situations balloons could field a weapon.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2023\/2\/7\/23588464\/suspect-spy-china-balloon-sputnik-moment-space-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2023\/2\/7\/23588464\/suspect-spy-china-balloon-sputnik-moment-space-race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Balloons, it turns out, are already part of that US arsenal, with the Pentagon spending $3.8 billion over the past two years on them, according to Politico. As industry expert George Howell posted on LinkedIn, \u201cHigh Altitude Balloons are actually a pretty smart thing to invest in, they\u2019re cheap, easy to transport, can be fielded in large numbers and are payload agnostic,\u201d meaning that while they\u2019re most likely to be carrying cameras or radar, in certain situations balloons could field a weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1702,89,259,472,960,619,1055],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-balloons","tag-china","tag-military","tag-spying","tag-ufo","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}