Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon?
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s small circumnavigating pico balloon is “missing in action.”
Intelligencer
looks like we fired a $500,000 missile from a $300,000,000 warplane to shoot down a $100 hobbyist balloon. It circumnavigated the globe 7 times before it met its end at the hands of the American Air Force and a political imperative to Not Look Weak. You can hardly make this shit up.