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Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon With $400,000 Missile

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Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon With $400,000 Missile
An F-22 Raptor does a fly-by during the airshow at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sept. 16, 2017. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
Andrew Thornebrooke
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The Pentagon is stonewalling inquiries as to whether one of the unidentified objects it shot down off the coast of Alaska earlier this month was a $12 dollar hobby balloon.

Speculation that the unidentified aerial object the administration shot down earlier this month was actually a cheap hobbyist pico balloon began to build this week after a group dedicated to the hobby reported one of its balloons “missing in action” over Alaska.
Andrew Thornebrooke
Andrew Thornebrooke
National Security Correspondent
Andrew Thornebrooke is a national security correspondent for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master's in military history from Norwich University.
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