What if 300 or 100 of these balloons were spotted, would we use 300 Hellfire missiles to shot them down? Very cost effective.
Then as Rick pointed out what if there is a payload on one of these balloons?
We have now shot down 3 UFOs since the Chinese weather balloon. One over Alaska, one over Canada and one over Lake Huron, Michigan.
Makes one wonder if NORAD's tracking of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve is as accurate as they have led us to believe. My grandchild have found presents under the tree on Christmas Eve before Santa was reported over Colorado.
Our Air Force has shot down three more balloons, however we don't know where they came from, what they were doing and we are unable to recover the debris, at this writing. As a bonus the balloon over Lake Huron was missed with the first missile ($435,000) and destroyed it with the second ($ 435, 000) No one knows where the first missile came to earth.
Inspires confidence.
Sen Kennedy (LA) was interviewed after being briefed by the administration; at the end of his Q&A with reporters, he added " remember to lock your doors tonight".
Well, this certainly reflects well on Slo Joe's administration:
"The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, in a blog post that was first reported by Aviation Week, says one of its balloons went “missing in action” in the same region the U.S. military shot down one of the three unknown objects.
On Tuesday, the group said one of its balloons was last spotted at 12:48 a.m. on Saturday along an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska. That tracks with when a U.S. F-22 used a Sidewinder missile to shoot down an object over the Yukon later that same day. Canadian officials have since said the debris will be extremely difficult to retrieve due to the frozen terrain and the remoteness of the site."