Subj : Up, Up, and away, in my..
To   : Dumas Walker
From : MRO
Date : Tue Feb 07 2023 07:47 pm

  Re: Up, Up, and away, in my..
  By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Tue Feb 07 2023 04:25 pm

 > > it's in a lot of articles.  it's not a regular weather balloon.
 >
 > I knew that.  It did have what looked like solar panels but maybe they
 > were/were also sails that could be moved to cause it to change its course
 > somewhat.
 >

if it's imaging areas it probably had the ability to adjust vertically, as well.

i just looked it up and this balloon was 200feet in height and was carring around 2,000lbs of payload

Then they waited until it got 6 miles off our coast to shoot it down.
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