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52,000 feet, and intercepted the balloon somewhere between 62 and 64,000 feet, looking back at some of the difficulties i described. the balloon being at a lower altitude and its normal operating altitude, something close to 90,000 feet made this easier. the fact that it was over water meant that there was no danger of hitting people on the ground or hitting infrastructure. it also meant the u.s. had five days to weaponear whatever weapons were being used to deal with the warheads, deal with the fusing, if any, deal with issues with doppler, issues with targeting. and it looks the operation seemed to go very smoothly. and so now divers are trying to recover what they can from the ocean. again, i think we want to stress just how big this thing was. we talked about three city buses on friday. we got more details. it s 200 feet tall, the payload attached to it was similar in size to a regional jet liner,

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