{"id":52759,"date":"2019-08-03T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=52759"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:45:50","slug":"pentagon-testing-mass-surveillance-balloons-across-the-us-us-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/pentagon-testing-mass-surveillance-balloons-across-the-us-us-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US | US news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to \u201cprovide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats\u201d, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/02\/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&amp;fbclid=IwAR1zuAqny-o6CXp68clXtuGzmu2IEYmH_pKFyGfs24pOawswalax3RJ0gjc\">Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US | US news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to \u201cprovide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats\u201d, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company. Source: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2082],"tags":[781,23,1691,2064],"class_list":["post-52759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr-archive","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-privacy","tag-surveil-me","tag-surveillance-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-dIX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52760,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759\/revisions\/52760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}