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How to use the word Balloon in a Sentence?

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There’s absolutely no doubt in our minds about what the balloon, once over the United States, was attempting to do. And no doubt in our minds about this surveillance balloon program that China has, and again, has been used over more than 40 countries around the world.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This balloon, by the way, had a lot of American parts in it. We know that the hypersonic missile that went around the world with precision was built on the backbone of American technology.

– Mike McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hope we are going to get to the bottom of this, but I make no apologies for taking down that balloon.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think( Indian Ocean) government is being silent about Indian Ocean for the simple fact that( it) was unable to do anything about Indian Ocean, if Indian Ocean were to say that a spy balloon was found over the Andaman Sheekha and The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is seen as a great bastion of Indian sovereignty, Indian Ocean would show the government in a very poor light.

– Sushant Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mystery balloon hovered over Andaman Sheekha and Nicobar Islands around tri-service military drill.

– Indian Ocean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law, that it’s an irresponsible act and that the PRC (People’s Republic of China) decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because we have not yet been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, we have acted out of an abundance of caution to protect our security and interests, the spy balloon from (China) was of course different in that we knew precisely what (it) was. These most recent objects do not pose a kinetic military threat, but their path in proximity to sensitive (defense) sites and the altitude that they were flying could be a hazard to civilian aviation and thus raised concerns.

– Melissa Dalton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As we saw with the second balloon over Central and South America that they just acknowledged, they also have no explanation for why they violated the airspace of Central and South American countries, the PRC’s program will only continue to be exposed, making The PRC program harder for The PRC to use this program.

– The US

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know The PRC used these balloons for surveillance, high resolution imagery from U-2 flybys revealed that the high-altitude balloon was capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations.

– The US

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea shooting down a balloon that’s gathering information over America and that makes relations worse? i made it real clear to Xi Jinping that we’re going to compete fully with China, but we’re not looking for conflict. That’s been the case so far.

– Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In my call today with Director Wang Yi, I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law, that it’s an irresponsible act, and that the (People’s Republic of China) decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[T]his gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that time frame was well worth its value to collect over.

– Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In my call today with Director Wang Yi, I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

– Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the Chinese leadership at the national level clearly felt upset and upstaged by this balloon.

– Dali Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This balloon incident now sets us back significantly, because the calendar of US-China relations just over the next several months does not allow a whole lot of space for the two sides to reset.

– Jude Blanchette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons, and so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Me and my coworkers were shocked, it appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought.

– Michael Alverson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought.

– Ashley McGowan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of these systems use extremely high frequencies that are short range, can be absorbed by the atmosphere and being line-of-sight are very directional. It’s possible a balloon might be a better collection platform for such specific technical collection than a satellite.

– Peter Layton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's like a balloon, you squeeze one end and it bulges out the other. That is a very real concern of ours.

– Alan Gilbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In case of deep enteroscopy, like double balloon or single balloon scopes, [which] gets to a deep length [of the gastrointestinal tract] to check small bowel problems, the concept is same as pressure trauma [to cause pancreatitis].

– Travis Barker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We think legacy is like a balloon being inflated and so we expect to see the results. Truthfully, legacy is more like the air going into the balloon, whether we witness the outcome or not, lives are being touched.

– Sanita Belgrave

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2 years ago

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