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I don't want to offend anyone but I hope we can keep the current discussion to comments about the balloon and avoid the politics. Below is the first post I made in the Reatta Lounge.

I am sure there is more to this than meets the eye. Undenied rumors that this is not quite the one off event is a bit of a revelation and it has been going on for quite a while. It looks like the major uproar occurred when civilians observed and tracked it, sort of forcing into the open. If true that this is not unprecedented, then it brought back a memory of something a former brother in law said when stationed at Ft.Sill OK, where they specialize in surface to surface missles. I asked about the public highway that ran through the base and he answered "there are some things we want them to see". This was about 35 years ago, but still...

OTOH by dropping over water, they stand a good chance of recovering the payload intact, even deflated a balloon that big would provide a lot of drag. Am sure it was being monitored/jammed from calling home.