The RoanokeSlant

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US shot down China Balloon with missile Sat PM over Myrtle Beach SC.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/04/us/china-spy-balloon
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The flap over a large maneuverable China Balloon traversing the US at 60,000-feet from west to east is reminiscent of 1960 SW-Virginia Pilot Gary Powers flying a US-U2 spy plane over Russian and being shot-down and displayed with perp-walks and show trials and diatribes by Nikita Khrushchev.
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/u-2-spy-plane-incident
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly told China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a call on Friday that “the presence” of a suspected Chinese spy balloon in “U.S. airspace is a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/blinken-says-chinese-balloon-in-clear-violation-of-u-s-sovereignty
China’s government claimed the balloon is a “civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes” and essentially got blown off course. The Pentagon rejected that explanation on Friday, calling it a “surveillance balloon” that was about 60,000 feet in the air and “maneuverable.”
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The Cold War Museum's Biography on U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers.
Francis Gary Powers was born to Oliver and Ida Powers on August 17, 1929 in Burdine, Kentucky and raised in Pound, Virginia during the Great Depression. He graduated from Grundy High School, Virginia in 1946 and four years later graduated from Milligan College, Tennessee; he then enlisted as an Aviation Cadet, USAF.
https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/capt-francis-gary-powers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
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This spy-fly-by incident also reminiscent of Sputnik
Sputnik Day October 4, 1957
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/sputnik-day-october-4-1957.html
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Roanoke’s Bill Overstreet Visited The Eiffel Tower With His P-51
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/06/roanokes-overstreet-and-eiffel-tower.html
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Bill's cousin from Roanoke was also a U-2 Pilot over Russia
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 10:45 AM