#PRC: Over reaction. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
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#PRC: Over reaction. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://theweek.com/us-military/1021005/us-may-have-shot-down-3-benign-objects-1-errant-chinese-spy-balloon
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| 0:35.0 | I'm John Batson with Colonel Jeff McCawson, CBS News Dickinson College, Diamond Six |
| 0:39.6 | Leadership and Strategy. The confirmed downed surveillance balloon off the coast of South |
| 0:47.1 | Carolina. We're told carriage sensors that are consistent with with surveying. For example, |
| 0:53.8 | the ICBM Missile Base in Montana or Stratcom in Nebraska or the B2 base in Missouri or |
| 1:00.7 | a recent report in the early stages of its journey over Guam, which is the front line |
| 1:07.0 | in the event of a catastrophe in Asia and a war over Taiwan. |
| 1:11.2 | Jeff balloons at 60,000 feet are our surveillance mechanism, but there was a two, three and |
| 1:18.1 | four episode that are not characterized, not confirmed. |
| 1:22.0 | What we have here is a mystery. The American people want an answer to what is your best |
| 1:26.0 | information about that balloon off of South Carolina? Is it a spot? Was it a spy balloon? |
| 1:32.9 | Is that accurate? |
| 1:33.9 | Yeah, I think it certainly was, John, based on a whole bunch of things. First of all, |
| 1:38.0 | we know that it had a payload about the size of three school buses. We know the Chinese |
| 1:43.3 | have talked for a long time about exploiting what's called near space. That is, allotures |
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