Dr. Andrew Hammond, Historian & Curator at the International Spy Museum, breaks down some common misconceptions about the Chinese ‘spy’ balloon that was shot down in the United States. Did the U.S. shoot down the balloon too late? Was this a dry run for a military attack? Was this the first time this has happened? Could the spy balloon see into our homes?
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Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Eric Bugash
Editor: Anna O’Donohue
Expert: Andrew Hammond
Producer: Anna O’Donohue
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Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Mike Audick
Audio: Elijah Sutton
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Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
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I don't like that Intel agencies doing too much waiting and watching that's how 911 happened.
Just the old trick that make Americans are panic like they did when USA invade Iraq.
This guy didn’t really give any answers, he said it wasn’t a ufo which we all knew but he didn’t flat out say they didn’t use this for a future misle path, or that they used it for a bad intention or that it’s nothing to worry about, horrible explanation
I don't trust anyone. I wonder if this "spy historian" guy is CIA?
Why would you ever use balloons for surveillance instead of satellites?
Nice to put a face to the best accent on SpyCast!
japan will retake the kurils sakhalin and vladivostok south korea will take nroth koea.
Y'all in the comments acting like the US doesn't spy on China too, God the hypocrisy…
That accent… I'm melting 😍😍.
What about Google earth?
So it is not a spy balloon? Cuz nothing spyish was found.
Unsub for useless explanation, bye wired.
So many Americans being bought with CCP money.
Easiest to be compromised are the Americans.
Frankly I'm disappointed that you tried to mask a political video as a technical video.
Not today CIA , Nice try FBI
Wired cringe binge
I think its more confirming that it was chinese and was in fact spying… 🤔
In 1998 a rogue Canadian weather balloon that was over '25 storeys' tall also fitted with solar panels flew over Russia when it got caught up in the jet stream. It was a high altitude balloon designed to monitor the ozone layer. Claiming the size of a balloon can't be a weather balloon because of it's size is just ignorance.
You should not assume it's a spy balloon just because China is more technologically advanced in weather monitoring and you don't understand their technology. It's like saying I have a combustible-based car and yours is electric, I don't know electric cars so I believe it's a tank…
it's been a months since they recovered the debris, how come they are not showing us the hard evidence? they always use any excuse to scream that china is evil yet they are completely silent.
right we all know the first one was a spy balloon it was seen on tv and online. but what was the next 2 they shot down? one was said to look like a hexagon shape? what's that about and it was about the size of a car? so i want to show you what i caught on film since June 2022 this is only a few nights i have over 100 now of the same types! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOV3nYkp4y0&t=305s
Still incredible how China responded to this incident. When will our leaders learn that China is too immature to be taken serious on the world stage. They need to be called out in their lies and deceit.
I don't trust this fuckin shill
these weren't real myths, jesus christ the click bait
What an accent! Horrible. Fit for the non-contents.
Remember to visit your parents regularly to maintain a reasonable social credit
I don’t quite understand the part about “can it see inside your windows?” Wouldn’t the imaging device (or the balloon itself) need to be level with the window in order to see in it?
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"B L O O N S"
"mental gymnastics" lol.
我们只希望世界和平
NENA predicted this 40 years ago
HE IS A COMMUNIST !!! ITS A SPY BALLOON !!! HE IS TRYING TO BRAIN WASH YOU !!! LOL
A balloon could carry CBRN methods as well, it doesn’t have to be a bomb.
Um, there's the American thing where they can drop missiles out of a cargo plane, sooo, this is their response? You don't need the plane, you have the balloon that could lazer guide the bombs… if its drifting that high up no one could detect it? it's like a slow moving cheaper b52, dunno the cost of the rig, but, rough estimate ar the higher end, cost for cost, 1 b52 would be a billion, balloon 20 million, so 1 b52 = 50 balloons?
Surprised the media did something like this.
Why You need a dumb Balloon If You have Satellite 🙄