In February, observers spotted an unrecognized, giant balloon drifting along westward, as things tend to drift, across the North American continent. The balloon was the size, we’ve been told, of three school buses, which is a bit of an odd analogy. After it drifted over the Atlantic off the coast of the Carolinas, an F-22 Raptor shot it down. The Air Force has recovered much of the debris.
Then, over the next week or so, three more objects were shot down, one in or around the Canadian border, so it was a joint exercise, the shooting down of this thing that they either don’t know what it was or they’re not saying. And there was one more off the frozen north coast of Alaska, too, that got shot down and…