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At 20k feet, that's solidly in the middle of everyday commercial air traffic.


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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