Circumstantial evidence from the group suggests that a sidewinder missile may have taken out a balloon costing as little as $12.
The military has wrapped up its recovery of the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast, but it's the three smaller objects blown out of the sky in the eight days after that are sparking all the questions.The FBI confirms it has talked to a balloon hobbyist club from theCritics are questioning the U.S. response."They've shot a $400,000 missile, sidewinder missile, at three balloons that were industrial balloons or weather balloons.
"No apologies here. You make the best decisions you can with the information you have," said John Kirby, National Security Council.admitted on Thursday that the three were most likely private balloons used for recreation or scientific research and the White House says U.S. airspace is safe. "There shouldn't be any overarching concern by the American people that the skies are somehow full of attack balloons or that they're that they're at greater risk," said Kirby."We do need to have a better system to determine what are objects that are truly dangerous to American security and what objects are more innocent," said Rep. Ro Khanna.
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