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@rawsalerts | 391,631 followers

🚨#BREAKING: Incredible HD footage of the Chinese surveillance balloon being shot down

🚨#MyrtleBeach l #SC

Watch incredible HD video of the moment when the Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by a single missile from an F-22 fighter jet from Langley Air Force Base

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Total of 818 replies and 598 quotes found

In reply to @rawsalerts

Michael Horowicz

@Michaelhorowicz

Smoke is pink. It’s a girl!!!

In reply to @rawsalerts

Shaun Humphrey

@ShaunHumphrey65

pic.twitter.com/byqOWB6Pz7

Rafael Fontana

@RafaelFontana

Veja o exato momento em que o balão chinês foi alvejado pela Força Aérea dos EUA.

Celso Rocha de Barros

@NPTO

Eu ainda acho que isso é daqueles balões de chá de revelação

The ArchCast

@TArchcast

I also want to point out the weapon used to destroy that thing costs about 400k

In reply to @rawsalerts

영노 🐇🧧

@yeongno3

Telling that they would use a missile to shoot it down. If they recovered the equipment intact it would prove it’s a weather balloon and not a “spy balloon” as they claimed.

In reply to @rockfish31

Neil_Z

@Neil_zh

飴308@2㌔マン

@candylight308

米本土に飛来した中国の気球は撃墜されたのか。米軍も質が落ちたものだ。昔の米軍だったら、着艦フックの先に目がついていると言われた、艦載機乗りにフックに気球を引っ掛けて回収したであろうに(ファントム無頼世代←

In reply to @rawsalerts

Zeta

@IRCA_JA

Couple of questions: 1- Why they did not do this at first on empty land....? waiting to data get transferred? 2- Why they did not bring it down instead shooting it, to see what info is collected? 3- F22 and 400-grand fox-2 missile for a balloon? They could have gun it with F16/15

In reply to @SpeakerMcCarthy

James Connor 🌊🌊

@toJamesConnor

I appreciate that @POTUS and the Department of Defense coolly waited until the balloon was above water. They put no Americans at risk due to falling metal. Nice to have cool-headed leadership in charge.

In reply to @rawsalerts

Jason Hanson

@JasonTheHanson

Forever in our hearts, but no longer in our sky. pic.twitter.com/SFYFgEwdRS

ナカムラ

@T_AH19

F-22Aの初キル♪⁠

In reply to @rawsalerts

Jamie Burke ⛺️

@jamie247

pic.twitter.com/jCxBm7t2dC

In reply to @rawsalerts

Jack The Aussie

@hammerofleft

pic.twitter.com/ESNxuBGVI4

周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou

@ZhouFengSuo

美国空军一发导弹击毁中共国间谍气球的瞬间，高清视频

Shen

@shenmacro

F-22による気球撃墜の瞬間。

James Connor 🌊🌊

@toJamesConnor

I appreciate that @POTUS and the Department of Defense coolly waited until the balloon was above water.

They put no Americans at risk due to falling metal.

Nice to have cool-headed leadership in charge.

Philip Le Butt

@PhilipLeButt

Nur noch 98 Luftballons. 😌

In reply to @rawsalerts

david kersten

@davidkersten

It's a fucking WEATHER balloon.

In reply to @rawsalerts

ShanghaiPanda

@thinking_panda

USA! USA! USA! Beat the balloon! Great! Ok, now, let's talk about compensation. You know, it's a civil weather balloon... 😂

MPR Weather

@MPRweather

Moment of impact.

Scott Horton

@scotthortonshow

Now we can all believe in ourselves again!

wizard ball

@greasemothball

shout out to all of our brave dart monkeys out on the front lines 🫡

In reply to @rawsalerts

Hawkeye State

@hawkeyefbl

Why wait to take this spy ballon down after it as traversed across the country collecting data? Should have been taken out the minute it entered our airspace in Montana.

soft diety✨️

@hella_plush_

Gobbless pic.twitter.com/nnaIWv7G4g

T.REX 【Free & Open Indo-Pacific】　💉×5

@s8t8r9n0

バルーンを狙ってるねw
偵察機器は回収分析w

❤️‍🔥Mercy⚖️

@StLadyDeadpool

That's the big huge mess it made and why they couldn't do it over rural farm land ...

★🅺🅰🅻🅾★

@kaloyanides

Okay…

So they didn’t pop the balloon so they could recover the electronics.

They obliterated the electronics AFTER it scanned the country and transmitted the data.

This is a very big deal.

Robert Dolezal

@RobertDolezal

Too little, too late. Damage was already done.

In reply to @rawsalerts

Canada has fallen

@TheYetiKnowswhy

keeping sheep entertained as Ukraine shock news is stale

3maysun

@threemaysun

this ball is crushed

In reply to @rawsalerts

Wayne Stebbe

@StebbeW

Talk about precision! Cut the guy wire. Instrument package still all in one piece. Small footprint when it hits the water Easy recovery. Brilliant!

In reply to @livedoornews

やっさん

@yasan_22

気球撃墜の映像

Dedicating Ruckus

@ded_ruckus

I recall a few threads going around by armchair military about how high-altitude balloons like this are actually super hard to shoot down and thus they're going to be the future of military reconnaissance and change everything (etc etc)

In reply to @rawsalerts

Ed Rivera

@EdRiver76005279

Blew up like all the Congressional Republicans complains and purposed hearings. On the National Security disaster concerning the Chinese Spy balloon. That won’t be happening anytime soon. Oops! It crashed In front of Trump tower. That’s one hideous Chinese balloon. I pic.twitter.com/XzYMJPULRt

𝘾𝙮𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙩✴️

@tgmmnkn

都结束了。 pic.twitter.com/M6LoFbKffe

たけさん

@TakefumiY

わざわざ戦闘機で撃墜してみせるこういうマッチョなやり口がいかにもアメリカ的。

Ⱥmerican Trucker 🇺🇸

@taylorbilt

The Chinese Spy Balloon's mission was accomplished BEFORE they shot it down. Let thar sink in.

In reply to @rawsalerts

WTF Trump not indicted yet?!

@Pajaro505

Looks to me like the missile hit the payload.

In reply to @rawsalerts

Greg

@greg_scott84

Perhaps a dumb question, but how did anyone know that it was Chinese?

In reply to @rawsalerts

Lang

@Tesla___fan

wouldn’t it been better to capture it and study its technology? 🤷‍♂️

Banquo’s Not Giving Elon $11

@BanquoDyar

Joe Biden by 20 million in 2024 #DarkBrandonRising pic.twitter.com/aOLLO8qSgo

ルル🇺🇸💖

@lulu200323

🚨🚨中国の監視気球が撃ち落とされる瞬間😳

サウスカロライナのマートルビーチ上で、中国の監視気球がラングレー空軍基地からの F-22 戦闘機からの 1 発のミサイルによって撃墜された！！

In reply to @rawsalerts

Casual Observer

@CasualxObserver

Guess the reconnaissance mission is over. Time to dispose of the evidence.

In reply to @ka1n0s

Darkly Energized

@ka1n0s

2/12 The Chinese balloon... All I could think was how strange it is, the metaphors that arise in "reality" if this isn't a simulation of some kind. Just when it seems all market reversal sirens are blaring, a big bubble pops in the sky, for all to see? twitter.com/rawsalerts/sta…

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕔 𝕁𝕣. ❄️⛈

@WxmanFranz

They were worried about doing this over MT ? Riiiiight.

Scott Lowe

@tropicostation

Highest res video I’ve seen but would benefit from stabilization. Payload looked fairly intact as it started to fall.

In reply to @rawsalerts

Cherokee BILL

@ang3lo_1

What if that was some kind of disease dust that flew out

Dr. Muqtedar Khan

@MuqtedarKhan

Bulls-Eye! Pop goes the Weasel... #ChineseSpyBallon #Chinese #ChineseSpyBalloon

AmishDude

@TheAmishDude

So disappointing.

They could have just hit it with a huge stick.

Now we'll never get any of the candy.

In reply to @rawsalerts

Get off my lawn 👌🇺🇸

@DonMinnesota

Pretty cool how the missile hit directly at the payload to destroy it instead of the ballon itself to save vital information.

Alice Hillmer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻☮️

@HillmerAlice

Cool!

mentman

@ment1113

これって2年前くらいに日本上空で謎の気球って騒いでたやつっぽいよね？

In reply to @rawsalerts

Archie O-Observing

@ArchieObserving

Little cloud of anthrax, there.

In reply to @rawsalerts

The Dabbler

@petjal

floated around and found out

In reply to @rawsalerts

tpnelson423

@tpnelson423423

The gov pretty good at distracting people from what's really going on.

Will Collier

@willcollier

Unless there's been a covert op that they've kept quiet, I believe this is the first hostile kill recorded by an F-22.

Suffice to say, stealth, sensor fusion, supercruise and thrust vectoring were, ah, not significant factors in the intercept.

In reply to @rawsalerts

JustDeplorable 🍊

@TopsyRjl76

How do they know there was nothing in it?

In reply to @DolioJ

Brian Ziskie 🇺🇸🇵🇱

@ZiskieBrian1

@DolioJ @WatcherontheWeb

In reply to @rawsalerts

Peter

@Peter93005600

eBay FOR SALE Used Chinese weather balloon •⁠self navigating •⁠built in surveillance technology •⁠needs repair Collect in person off the coast of North Carolina (will need a boat and diving equipment)

Greg Gaylor

@SMUMustangAlum

Hoorah! Down goes the Chinese Communist spyloon. #ChineseSpyBalloon

光傳媒官推官網 https://www.ipkmedia.com

@Ipkmedia

美国击毁中共间谍气球高清瞬间

🇨🇦 Bradley 🇨🇦

@BradCPeace

Though amazing footage getting rid of a Chinese spy balloon after crossing the entire US is like locking the doors after a burglers rummaged through your house.

Cαƚ★Lαԃყ

@SaboCatLady

RIP weather balloon

Gatekeeper Erik

@PunishedErik

look, I'm just a dumb man and I don't know anything about military stuff but

they used a fucking missile to pop a balloon?

Mehmet Witch ᱬ | RE4R

@WeBeenCroft

NOOO IT WAS NOT A SURVEILLANCE BALLOON IT WAS BELLA GOTH FROM THE SIMS 3 IN A HOT AIR BALLOON

drdailylatte☕

@drdailylatte

taken out with a $BBIG 🚀

In reply to @rawsalerts

JustHanginOn23

@JustHanginOn22

Is the white powder Anthrax or COVID?

Shiv Kumar Sachan

@sachan_shiv

चीन के स्पाई बैलून को अमेरिकी वायुसेना ने हमला कर गिराया
#F22

真鯛名人

@madaimeijin

米軍が中国の気球を撃墜したことに中国が「強烈な不満と抗議」「明らかに過度な反応だ」と非難し対抗措置を取る可能性も示した。
米国は当然の処置であり、単に中国の逆ギレだろう。普通の国は他国にスパイ気球を飛ばさない。

freedom9999

@freedom99993

🚨 #BREAKING : 令人难以置信的中国监视气球被击落的高清镜头

🚨 #MyrtleBeach l #SC

观看来自兰利空军基地的一架 F-22 战斗机的一枚导弹击落中国监视气球那一刻的令人难以置信的高清视频

ASAKO

@hana_x1_k3

バイデン大統領、中国のスパイ疑惑の気球を撃ち落としました。
President Biden shoot down the ballon.
#ChineseSpyBalloon

Janet- no DMs

@Janet88946559

I could watch this all day and night. What a hit !!!

In reply to @rawsalerts

Louis

@loudog716

They shot a missle to shoot down a balloon? Only takes a needle

Diego Moya

@dmoyaec

Parece que en el globo tenía polvos mágicos 😒

In reply to @rawsalerts

Robert Kennedy

@RobertK19929602

Right pic.twitter.com/uH7tNmQlw9

Eurasian Emperor

@empireenjoyer10

Equipment in tact

In reply to @rawsalerts

1776 MAGA Karen

@KblairTrump

Should of been shot down before getting to USA!

In reply to @rawsalerts

RyanAnthony

@RyanTonyNemo

Where’s all the dangerous debris the Biden administration said there would be if they shot it down? What a pathetic bunch of leaders we have

aidan (Alpha Male) 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@username26386

AN AMERICAN HERO pic.twitter.com/XqcVBRJUmS

Arabella12 at Spoutible

@Spireship

pic.twitter.com/mVp1uwHFbg

#1 Solo Plair

@DustyWhoads

This is gonna turn out to be about some dumb tiktoker

In reply to @rawsalerts

old rancher

@oldranchhandtwt

12 miles high... edge of space... good job AF!!

税は財源ではない

@udonheron

中国の気球撃墜

正体不明の敵性飛行物は撃墜するのあたりまえ
反対している人は中国関係者かな

In reply to @kelsyydawn

100T ElasticBuckle

@everythingluis

@kelsyydawn

Jacqueline Manos - Trump Defender-in-Chief FOREVER

@JacquelineManos

Bravo US AirForce! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
#LangleyAirForceBase

In reply to @rawsalerts

American Author Athena

@heiressarts

It looked like a parachute coming down

Luigi Basemi 🏅

@LBasemi

🚨 #BREAKING: Incredibile filmato HD del pallone di sorveglianza cinese che viene abbattuto

elle@techGEEK

@abyss11126

わざわざ最新鋭のF-22を使用するってことは何か政治的な意味を感じるね。

In reply to @rawsalerts

Kevin Michael Callihan Sr.

@KevinMichaelC19

This message not only opens a scab, so to speak, among academicians who propose international laws that embrace a common ownership of space in space defined. Thank you kindly. With vast satellite prevalence, we deal with world peace, always.