northwest territories of canada. then it dropped back into the united states over idaho. by last wednesday, february 1st, it was spotted by civilians in the skies over southern montana. a man staring out of the window of an office building in billings saw what he thought was a ufo. too small to be the moon, he says. he took pictures. it soon appeared on social media. almost immediately the air space over billings, over the entire town was shut down. commercial flights were diverted. f-22 raptors arrived from a nearby air force base along with refueling tankers and a wax surveillance plane. it was a big story. so it was at that point when the existence of an unauthorized chinese military aircraft over the united states became impossible to deny or hide it, at that point, officials around joe biden decided to tell him about it. we don t know joe biden s reaction to this but we do know his response. biden did nothing. he didn t order the balloon shot down. he didn t call for san
against the chinese government that sent it. it was not until this weekend when the aircraft had traversed the entire united states including at least one classified nuclear weapons installation that an air force jet finally pierced it with the sidewinder missile off the coast of south carolina. debris was still fluttering toward the ocean when the administration began telling lies, many of them about what had happened. that balloon posed no threat to american national security, the biden administration claimed. why? because the balloon never transmitted data back to ch china. now, how could officials know that? they never explained nor did they say whether chinese military would send one of its aircraft all the way to the u.s. without a satellite uplink. apparently, the chinese just forgot. they re not very good at technology. it was an unsensible claim. as far as we know, not a single reportedner washington pressed the administration to press that claim. that s not surprising. report