This whole story has been such BS. Something stinks. Not only are we paying billions upon billions of dollars for a bloated military, but they can't even tell us WTF they shot out of the sky? How about some pictures? Surely they have pictures. Don't my tax dollars at least buy those?

Interestingly, this story coincided with a story by Seymour Hersh that claims the US blew up Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline. This whole balloon non-story owned the headlines for a good week, starting the day Hersh's story broke.