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Chinese Balloon Misdirect

Need To Know with Coulthart and Zabel

CHAPTER

The Weather Balloon Dance

Bryce: We've had a plague of UFO Chinese balloons for the last 70 years. The balloon show started in 1947 when the US government admitted that they had possession of a flying disc in Roswell. And then within hours said, no, no, nothing to see here. It was a weather balloon. Bryce: I say this every episode, but I feel like I have to. It's just too crazy what they're trying to run past us. He says Julian Barnes from the New York Times is doing the same thing as Holman Jenkins from the Wall Street Journal.

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