Chinese “Weather Balloon” Enters US Air Space

[Absent]

Object downed by US missile may have been amateur hobbyists’ $12 balloon

Illinois hobby group says balloon went missing the day military missile costing $439,000 destroyed unidentified entity nearby

www.theguardian.com

Money well spent.

 

[Baffle]

They're going to drop a nuke on the next big charity balloon release (which is fair, those things are very bad for the environment).

 

[Thaluikhain]

Hmmm, so agents could can release a few dozen cheap balloons to cause panic, or perhaps complacency?

 

[Dalisclock]

Object downed by US missile may have been amateur hobbyists’ $12 balloon

Illinois hobby group says balloon went missing the day military missile costing $439,000 destroyed unidentified entity nearby

www.theguardian.com

Money well spent.

The Military Industrial Complex has been appeased by this sacrifice and as a result will continue to show favor.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

China jails US citizen, 78, for spying - BBC News

John Shing-Wan Leung, who is a permanent resident in Hong Kong, is given a life sentence.

www.bbc.com

Retaliation?

 

[CaitSeith]

Spoiler: Fitting song is fitting.

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we´ve got
Set them free at the break of dawn
till one by one they were gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message “somethings out there”
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, its red alert
There´s something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
And focusing it on the sky
The ninety nine red ballons go by

Ninety nine decisions treat
Ninety nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what weve waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyones a super hero
Everyones a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scrambling the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by

As ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It´s all over and Im standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If could find a souvenir
Just the prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go