Whether or Not It's a Weather Balloon?
By Raymond C. Wilson
- Release Date: 2023-02-27
- Genre: Law
Description
A string of four "unidentified objects" entered North American airspace during late-January and early-February 2023, only to be shot down by U.S. military aircraft. U.S. officials have referred to the object shot down off the coast of South Carolina on 4 February 2023 as a "surveillance balloon," while the three others stopped in their tracks on 10, 11, and 12 February, respectively, have been referred to as "unidentified objects" that were moving slowly through the skies around the same altitude that planes fly. What were these "unidentified objects?" That's what we hope to find out. However, the use of surveillance balloons to gather intelligence on an adversary is not a new phenomenon. The United States ran active surveillance programs (Project Mogul, Project Moby Dick, Project Genetrix) during the Cold War to spy on Russia and China under the cover story that they were weather balloons. This book was written by the stepson of William 'Jack' Wilson who participated in Project Moby Dick as a U.S. Air Force radar operator during the later days of the Korean War.
