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Why the U.S. Is Suddenly Shooting Down So Many Balloons
At 2:42 pm Eastern on Sunday, February 12, mere hours before the Super Bowl kickoff, a pilot flying an F-16 fighter jet shot an AIM 9X missile at an airborne object 6,096.00 m above Lake Huron. The pilot did so at the direction of President Biden and the Secretary of Defence, and the event marked…