That presser kind of blew my mind. I was sure these were obviously ID'ed as balloons by now. And the general seems to have said that we've never shot anything down over the US before, we don't know what these are or where they came from, and that this is the first time we've shot anything down in history, while also saying they NORAD's job is to "defend the homeland" and have a policy of shooting down kinetic threats, but shot this one down anyway, which wasn't deemed to be a kinetic threat, but a threat to air traffic, except it's extremely hard to even see never mind run into by pilots to the point where they couldn't even shoot it.