According to Tucker Carlson last night, the US had been tracking the balloon since before it came into our airspace.
They should have shot it down long ago, well before it hit Montana, but they could have shot it down over unpopulated Montana as well.
The balloon may have already completed its mission!
If it was a Russian balloon, you can be sure it would have been shot down immediately.
Biden 'WILL try to shoot down' the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic so it can be retrieved and studied - as aircraft is due to exit the east coast over the Carolinas by noon today
- The aircraft was tracking towards the Carolinas this morning and is due to exit the east coast by noon after passing over sensitive nuclear sites in Montana
- Biden decided against shooting the balloon down over US soil over fears for American lives and sparking an international incident, a senior US official said
- Now the Pentagon is planning a shoot down and capture mission over US waters
An F-22 Raptor out of Langley Air Force base took the balloon down with a single missile at 2.38pm, separating its surveillance payload and sending it plummeting towards the ocean off Myrtle Beach.
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