Why China’s “hypersonic weapons test” might have actually been reverse-engineered UAP tech and a shot across the bow of the US on disclosure.

Lue Elizondo spent about half of his interview today on relations with China. He says the idea has been brought up of engaging China and Russia on the UAP topic and studying it together as it would be way more lucrative for all involved.

What if we reached out to China and Russia and said look guys, I know we don’t agree on a lot of things but why don’t we pool our resources? Why don’t we do something really bold and something really novel? Let’s work together. I’m going to put up $20 million, China, you put up $20 million, Russia, you put up $20 million and lets put some sensors up there. Let’s open up this data to the world. Not even classified, let everybody and anybody have access to it and lets work on this project together.

Now, what does that do? It does one of a few things. First of all, it makes them co-investors into a project that we all own equally. No one can control the narrative. Right? It democratizes the subject for everyone around the world. It also does something else. They commit resources, now they’re invested. It’s a lot harder to piss off your friends that you’re working with on something over here and then go and invade something like Taiwan.

Obviously the interest in Taiwan is semi-conductors and their interests over there. It’s monetary at the end of the day. Well, what if you could make this more lucrative? A thousand times than what the semi-conductor industry can do right now. We say look, this has the potential to advance our civilization thousands, maybe millions of years, of human evolution in one generation. Would you want to be part of that?

Maybe we use that approach and then we don’t have to worry about a Taiwan ever being invaded or us being involved or worrying about what Australia has to say because it never happens. Because we’re all focused on a bigger, much more important issue. Maybe that’s a solution.

In this Breaking Defense article, it seems like there is a lot of cold water being thrown on the Air Force’s hypersonic nuclear weapons theory. It sounds like it caught US intelligence by surprise for some reason and it doesn’t sound like they have a definitive answer of what it actually is according to civilian scientists.

Those assumption are in part fueled by the lack of information, especially in the unclassified space. But by looking at what’s available, some experts said they’re skeptical. Harrison suggested it’s possible the test was of a FOBS system, but not one using a hypersonic glide vehicle. Instead, he said, there likely was miscommunication involved.

The US military “obviously tracked the trajectory of this mission that China was launching, and it was something that they weren’t expecting,” Harrison said. “Then after the fact, they were trying to make sense of it, and somewhere along the way, I will bet — either intel analysts who aren’t familiar with orbital dynamics, or policy-makers who were being briefed by the intel analysts — someone made this leap in logic that: ‘Oh, this must be a hypersonic weapon,’ and then it must have just taken off from there.”

By contrast, objects in orbit — including highly maneuverable spaceplanes — are by and large much more easily detected and tracked.

It is true that the US has issues with keeping tabs on space objects that can maneuver, especially if they do so while in orbit over the Southern Hemisphere where sensor coverage is light. But orbits are orbits, under the laws of physics, and ultimately things in space can usually be found.

If a country wanted to use a spaceplane as a weapon, Harrison explained, it actually would make a better co-orbital weapon to attack other satellites rather than a space-to-ground platform.

“I would see it as something that either carries something non-kinetic effects, like an electromagnetic pulse weapon, a laser jammer, something like that. Or, it could have a physical weapon that’s like an obscurant that you could spray on lenses,” he said.

Of course, that is exactly what the Chinese and Russians have accused the US of doing with the X-37B, which the US argues isn’t a weapon at all but a test platform.

As far as China’s claim to have launched a spaceplane in July, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell wrote on his blog that the US military did not report a new, unidentified spacecraft in orbit from mid-July to mid-August in their public catalog of space objects. And while one might think that US missile warning satellites, such as DoD’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) would have picked up any Chinese launch during that time frame, McDowell noted on Twitter that SBIRS is not optimized for watching trajectories over the Pacific.

McDowell, who works at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Breaking Defense that it would’ve been possible for independent space watchers to catch a glimpse of the spaceplane if it stayed in orbit, but not if it was suborbital. Or perhaps if it took only one turn or almost turn around the Earth they just missed it.

But, a number of other analysts have pointed out, if the test was of a “suborbital space vehicle” as described by the Foreign Ministry, it wouldn’t really be a spaceplane. Hypersonic weapons, of course, normally fly at suborbital altitudes.

Until more information is available, the most important lesson so far from all the hullabaloo may be “don’t jump to conclusions,” Harrison said.

“I think we’ve got to do a better job, as policy community of maintaining our rationality. Despite what China may be doing that’s provocative and other areas, we’ve got to be rational and the level headed, and look at things for what they really are,” he said. “In short, public hysteria can lead to overreaction by political leaders,” tweeted Aaron Bateman, a space policy expert at John Hopkins University.

Civilian scientists seem to be calling bullshit and for more restraint. They don’t believe we know what it is, or at least can’t say so in the “unclassified space.” People in the Pentagon have been pushing for the declassification of the United State’s own “secret space weapon.” China is proposing an initiative to prevent an arms race in space.

Was this a shot across the bow of the US, specifically of the obstructive warmongers in the Air Force, to get their shit together on disclosure?

If this was reverse-engineered UAP tech they used, this would definitely be a way to motivate the US to show the world what we have.

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