Shooting down the mysterious Chinese balloon out of the sky– what could go wrong?

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[debbie.daniele]

Its a threat to our airspace. If it was a Chinese jet plane, it would have been escorted out of the US airspace. This should not be any different. If they get away with this, what’s next?

[elebelle]

Is the balloon actually in US airspace at that high an altitude?

[patdenning]

Alaska to Montana is a lot of Canada air space. Was Canada not concerned about the balloon?

[macheldenostredame]

Please ask what happens if you blowup something the size of 3 city buses at 60, 000ft?

[carolyntesta]

What if the balloon is a test, to see what we do about it?

[AJearth]

It was downed here in NC by the military.

[stephenfoster]

99 Luft Balloons 🎈 floating through the winter sky

[normbale]

Likely a weather balloon. China said sorry for the 1st time.
An F15's 20mm cannon would put small holes not make an explosion.

[normbale]

Why is Gordon Chang a guest? Didn't he predict that Chine would collapse within a year half a dozen times.

[travelingadventuresofjacks]

There's plenty of very rural uninhabited areas in Tennessee North Carolina ancestor carolina even Georgia for that matter where they could drop this

[desertsunsetarcticfox]

could a drone do a fly-by and hook the balloon to bring it down in a controlled fashion?

[anotherguy]

...Biden can use the Corn "POP" method on the balloon.

[douglashaas]

Pop the balloon - if we floated one over China and got caught and they shot it down - we would all agree we asked for it.

[desertsunsetarcticfox]

What if these balloons (counting the one sighted south of the border) are distractions from some other surveillance probe? (got here too late for live chat today, looking forward to CNN interviews)

[DA-brxd]

The New York Post...right next to The National Enquirer for a reason.

[vc]

I think the US, should have shot the balloon over Montana, lower populated area.

[notabot]

I wonder if that balloon is capable of just sniffing all data sent between the ground and satellites. Let it land and you can data mine the tons of data.

[douglashaas]

If Biden does not take the balloon down - he may as well flush any thoughts about re-election.