USCG CommCom Issues "Keep Out" re: Chinese Balloon 4125 USB 0534 UTC 5 Feb 2023

[jasmine]

After failed attempts to contact "Aleutian 1" the United States Coast Guard Command (CommCom) from Chesapeake, Virginia transmitted a warning to mariners to keep out of the area of military operations near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where they are recovering pieces of the Chinese balloon which transited the continental US and Canada last week. Audio included below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eU33Nmw6aiMEH2cC91msQP28I-IP2O1p/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: Also there appears to be some encrypted traffic on 5696khz.

[Pigmeat]

Yep, the Great Balloon went down off Surfside Beach,SC. Had it gone down off of Myrtle Beach, the State of Ohio would have order all flags on public buildings to be flown at half-mast. Myrtle Beach is where all Buckeye's hope to go when they die.

There used to be an airbase in Myrtle Beach, but I think Horry County took it over after the Cold War to build the Myrtle Beach Airport? The jets that took it down were likely from Seymour Johnson AFB near Goldsboro, N.C. or the Cherry Point Marine Air Corps base between New Bern and Morehead City, NC. Cherry Point is near Camp Lejeune. There are miles long walled off runways north Cape Carteret that the Marines use. But don't try to scale that wall to take a peek, it can land you in some trouble.