Unidentified object

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Pipe_Dream

I heard that the first shot at it missed. I thought, really? Missed a balloon?

Each missile costs $400,000. We shot down 3 UFO's plus one miss. That means we spent $1,600,000 to shoot down these objects, PLUS the cost of the F-22's fuel and the pilots pay.

It's now reported that one of the objects was a $12 balloon with a tracking device on it that was launched by a father-son group as a science project.

And I'm with Phat.... Why not shoot it down with bullets? Lots cheaper and a more controlled/slower fall.

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