Put enough bullet holes in it and it would not have time to drift out of US waters.

The administration was heck bent on dropping it as soon as it cleared the coast,..why weren't they so concerned when it entered our other coast?

I assume ( and we all know how that goes) that it crossed Canada before entering US air space.



My thoughts when I heard they blew it out of the sky with a missile.

Not that it matters, any information that was gathered would have already been conveyed to China days ago.

https://youtu.be/IHqBXwLDwZ0

A pretty good talk about it and other bollons.

Now the administration says that 3 of them passed when Trump was in office!

Yah, I'll bet not. More of the same of Anti-Trump.

This is really cool

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRGyQwgy/

I know our government officials these days are complete idiots, but they actually got this one right.

I see Xi said on the news he is going to make the USA pay(retaliate) for shooting down his balloon.

I think Xi knew the balloon would be shot down,and that is exactly what he wanted.Now as soon as any US thing enters any Chinese claimed area in the international area of the South China sea Xi will shoot it down or sink it and say it is retaliation for the balloon.-All planned out.

could be boco. still the u.s. government should announce what exactly it was doing. its not like the chineese dont know. this whole keep everybody misinformed stuff gets old. why hide what is going on from the world? if you ask a neighbor kid what he was doing in your garage and he wont answer its a good bet it was nothing positive

While the buffoons we have for elected leaders are clueless, I still have quite a bit of confidence in our military and intelligence agencies. While the morons like Fauci and Biden are concerned about masks, and keeping the people voting the way they want, our intelligence agencies have a lot more knowledge about what the Chinese are doing with regards to bio-warfare, whether that be releasing the Covid virus or something far more sinister.

I just have a feeling that the reason they shot it down when they did had a lot more behind it than the person on the street will ever know.

I think your right Bernie. WHY is that information being with held? The Chinese already know. Don't we have a right to know what the threat was/is?????

When Russia put missiles in Cuba it was all over the news. Gave people a chance to prepare a bit. I don't see any difference

Biden is taking the credit for issuing the command to shoot it down, but I guarantee you he is not smart enough to figure out he best course of action. His staff is only going to release to the press the information that will make democrats look good. Period.

Don't we have the right to know? Sometimes it's better that the populace doesn't know things because if the populace knows, then the enemy knows.

I'm sure the defense system knew what they were doing. Heard a retired CIA/FBI official say they have the technology to jam whatever surveillance was connected to balloon. They may just be acting in a smart way to make the Chinese think the defense people are a bunch of buffoons.

They did say that the balloon had a payload the equivalent of two schoolbusses.I guess they have a lot to look into.

It was just a test by the Chinese. Float a balloon over the U.S. to see what The Idiot would do. Obviously, nothing.

Word I heard Trump allowed it twice during his term.
just

Did you hear about it durring trumps term? Common sense would dictate if it happend it would have got out and used against Trump like everything else real, blown out of proportion or fabricated durring his term and for the last few years. But you are only hearing about it now? Hmm sounds like more bs.

I thought it first crossed into our airspace in Alaska?