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clint eastwood will likely still be alive to direct,  the US government is actually the bad guy and we get a full 90 min of board room committee meetings.
For the first time in history, the U.S. government says…it’s not a weather balloon >

Holy shit so aliens confirmed??? >

Si, si >

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I wonder if the plane that shot it down will get a balloon decal on the side.
Edit: I think this might be the F-22's first air-to-air kill >

Another video >

The data they got from the F-22’s takedown was probably more valuable than the weeks of mountains and cattle data they got before that. >

I wouldn’t be surprised if they mounted those radar reflectors that they use for air shows on them just to prevent that. >

Probably, you don't exactly need to be stealthy to chuck a missile at a balloon. >

You also don’t need your best weaponry or to fly as fast as you can. I don’t really think they got any useful data. >

It's just the current prevailing spin for why this thing was allowed to enter our airspace in the first place. Not a ton of logic/thought behind it. >

Electronic counter measures prevented transmission of data... there was no hurry >

Over the continental US they could’ve easily jammed it from the ground but to reduce risk of interference the f22 patrol both flew cap and jammed the drone the whole time. I’d be most interested to know if space force got any information on Chinese satellites from all this. >

Moreover, pointing it out and just allowing it to do its thing for a while is probably incredibly embarrassing for the people that launched it. >

Can’t wait to suddenly remember this 10 years from now when someone references it in a meme >

Or next year when it is a major motion picture of the action-suspense genre starring Mark Wahlberg.