Latest flying objects shot down over Canada were likely balloons

giant, spherical, floating = yes that's a balloon

Why would the military use such a powerful ordinance to bring down a balloon? A missile could fly right through a balloon and cause much damage somewhere else. Why not use an aerial laser weapon which is claimed to be so powerful and accurate? This would eliminate the need for an aircraft to climb to 50,000 + feet to engage.

So many rogue gender reveal balloons, so many families will never know the baby genders... (since emojis aren't available, upside down sarcasm smiley face)

"The US believes that the flying objects shot down over North American airspace on Friday and Saturday were balloons".

I have an idea. Why don't they ask the pilots that supposedly shot these 'anomalies' down?

I *really* hope that this wasn't the week that ET finally decided to visit us!

I was wondering when they were going to figure that out... There's probably a hundred balloons floating around up there right now.. The one the size of a airliner was from China though, and it should have had a transponder to locate it. Most others weigh like a small bird

Wondering if these slow flying devices have been actually around longer than just a few weeks. Just read that the US military has been adjusting its radar to find flying objects (i.e., balloons) that are smaller, slower and differently shaped than enemy aircraft and missiles.

Love the way they blast them to million pieces then try to put them back together. Waste of tax payers money and error in fact finding investigations as result of impossible determination due to destruction. Try deflating techniques to initiate a slow decent for better recovery results. Am I the only one thinking this…

This article seems to explain using missiles instead of guns:
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-why-the-usaf-f-22-used-the-aim-9x-rather-than-the-gun-to-shoot-down-the-chinese-spy-balloon-and-why-the-sidewinder-dont-need-to-see-something-hot-in-order-to/

China: Depleting U.S. jet fuel and air-to-air missiles one balloon at a time.

why use a $300,000 Aim 9X to shoot down a balloon? Seems to me a couple of 20 mm rounds would do the trick..

First rule of gun safety, KNOW YOUR TARGET and what is beyond. Are you seriously going to tell me the Air Force does not apply this rule before launching million dollar missiles? They could not bother to do a low speed fly by? They now shoot down party balloons with a missile? Come on, I was born at night but it wasn't last night.

China "humiliated"? Hardly, look in the mirror Mr Schumer, and while you're at it, wake up the President and have him look in the mirror and see America's embarrassment to the World!

This one over Lake Huron was the same balloon spotted over Montana two days earlier. It was not an anomaly as some pols have said.

I wonder if Gen. Millie called China to let them know the US was shooting down balloons? What a travesty our military has become!

Schummer is a pathological liar and corrupt politician. What kind of idiot would believe anything he says?

$500,000 missile and $100 million fighter to shoot down $100 hobby and weather balloons!
And these idiots are in charge of our defense.
The White House did inform us that they were definitely not alien spaceships. This is good since shooting at aliens could be a VERY BAD idea.

I don't believe for a second, what we're being told.

When will we see the photos so the whole world can laugh at us? Our kiss-butt generals are all PC and represent the failure of the military.

http://www.scientificballoonsolutions.com/news/

https://amateur.sondehub.org/#!mt=Mapnik&mz=5&qm=12h&mc=53.46189,-2.24121

It's looking like one of these balloons was someone's school project.

Weren’t the ones shot down over the US also balloons?

With Schumer's past, this probably means they were "Little Green Men, from Alpha Centuri, You should visit there some time!"

China unleashes a deadly virus that kills millions of people around the world and we're completely disinterested in ascertaining how or why. Yet, float a balloon over us and our undergarments become completely entangled. We're a brilliant country these days...

For those who believe the media or our present government, I have oceanfront property for sale in Kentucky.

Barroon deriveling fly lice?