Dead Drop: November 22

BUOYS WILL BE BUOYS:  China’s Ministry of State Security is worried that foreign intelligence agencies may be trying to spy on their country’s submarine fleet. According to the South China Morning Post they have called on the public to keep an eye out for repurposed marine and weather observation buoys that might actually belong to western intelligence agencies deploying “silent sentinels” as spies “trying to steal sensitive marine data from us.” Beijing reportedly is unhappy with the deployment of sonobuoys in the South China Sea by the Australians and other navies – devices that have been used for many decades in international waters.  China thinks of much of the vast South China Sea as their territorial waters – so that may explain the angst. And we know how seriously they believe in respecting international boundaries.  But perhaps their complaints were only a trial balloon.

OR MAYBE THEY ARE NOT BUOYS AFTER ALL:   Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert recently grilled four witnesses at a hearing about UAPs/UFOs. Rather than focusing on unidentified flying objects, she drilled down on underwater aliens and civilizations. “Are there any accounts of UAPs emerging from or submerging into our waters which could indicate a base or presence beneath the ocean’s surface?” Boebert asked the witnesses. “Are there any technological capabilities that have been observed in these oceanic UAPs to defy our current understanding of physics or human engineering capabilities?” Apparently, she did not get a response that was satisfying – and she promised to stay on top of the matter. She also said: “There are rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material for the enhancement of human capabilities, hybrids,” Boebert said. “Are any of you familiar with that? Yes, or no?” No one owned up to knowing about that either. Perhaps they were withholding the truth to avoid being hit by a Jewish space laser that fellow Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene made famous.

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