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Understood, but is it reasonable to say that any car sized balloon floating at 20k ft is now worthy of a military response?



If it’s occupying airspace illegally, without a license to operate or a flight plan, without any means of control or contract, where it might become a deadly obstacle to legitimate air vehicles?

Who else but the military would enforce that kind of thing? The cops?


No I’m saying we seemed to live in a world where this was tolerated without incident literally until this week.




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