Operation Balloon operation
also: balloon launches, balloon onslaught, Japanese balloons
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United States covered_up
Operation Balloon host_asserted
“made mainland U.S. The threat was real. They kept a tight lid on the entire investigation. Strict censorship on the press and radios were instituted. Any balloon found in the civilian population was rounded up, and anyone in the local area …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 1 @ 47:50
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▶ 45:24
As these investigations were being conducted, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps at Camp Dietrich, Maryland, became concerned with defensive measures about the biological attacks. With the Germans working on a V-1 buzz bomb and V-2 rockets at the…
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rice paper had come down in Butte, Montana. But before technicians could respond to investigate the device, which they believed could have carried plague, another report came in that a large rubberized silt balloon had landed in Washington …
▶ 46:52
of the United States. I told them that if we found Japanese encephalitis on any of the balloons, we were in real trouble. But they didn't find any traces of bacteria or any device that appeared to be germ warfare. Still, the number of ballo…
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all across the Pacific in 30 to 60 hours. Then depending on the weather of the particular day, found their destination inside the United States. Some landed on Vancouver Island, Hawaii, Alaska. One was even found in Grand Rapids, Michigan. …
▶ 47:50
made mainland U.S. The threat was real. They kept a tight lid on the entire investigation. Strict censorship on the press and radios were instituted. Any balloon found in the civilian population was rounded up, and anyone in the local area …
▶ 48:18
In Oregon, a party of fishermen came across one of the balloons and began to examine it. It exploded, killing all six because the U.S. government gave them no heads up. Another report that leaked to the press before the government censors c…
▶ 48:47
could happen should the Japanese succeed in sending across deadly viruses and bacteria became more important than public safety. Two meetings were held in March of 1945, one at 7th Service Command in Omaha and one at the Western Defense Com…
▶ 49:15
Dietrich, and Washington. The end result was that probable targets within the U.S. were identified and that there was little the military or civilian authorities could do should the enemy begin a balloon onslaught. They certainly weren't go…
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If only one got through with biological weapons on it, it could kill thousands. According to recently declassified records, it was feared that a biological attack would, that spawned a super secret experiment jointly conducted by the Army a…
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Within weeks of the meeting on a day selected because of weather conditions, a task force of U.S. Navy ships steamed off the coast of Southern California. The residents of the beach communities had no idea what was going on. A gray mist clo…