UFO shot down with $400k missile by US Air Force may just have been $12 hobby balloon
Since you're sinking that kind of money into each missile you'd better hope they hit what they're aiming at, and you'd definitely want them to be pointed at the right target.
A suspected
Chinese spy balloon was brought down over the Atlantic Ocean on 4 February and since then a number of other
unidentified flying objects have been targeted and destroyed, including one floating in Canadian airspace.
However, it's possible that some of these were actually just normal balloons, and not ones sent to spy on the
US by the Chinese government.
In fact, one of them might just be a plain old hobby balloon that can be bought for as cheap as $12 after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) said one of theirs was missing.
They haven't made any formal accusation, but their silver coated 'pico balloon' last reported its position off the coast of Alaska on 10 February and would probably have been floating over Yukon Territory the next day.
Coincidentally, that very next day is when a US Air Force fighter jet (an F-22 if you're interested) shot down a UFO in that general area and it doesn't take much guesswork to wonder if the USAF accidentally blew the hobbyist's balloon to bits.
Officials are certain that
the first flying object shot down a couple of weeks ago was a 'high-altitude surveillance balloon'. It had been caught lurking above a number of sensitive military sites in the US and
was eventually shot down by a $400,000 Sidewinder missile over the Atlantic.
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-air-force-isnt-ruling-out-extra-terrestrial-life-ufo-498145-20230213
im not big on unilad, but lol if this is true