Biden admin used $500,000 missile to shoot down 'UFO'—that turned out to be Boy Scouts balloon
Shane Galvin, Steven Greenstreet
The Biden administration obliterated a boy scout balloon with a $500,000 missile in the wake of their bungled response to the Chinese Spy balloon incident, The Post can reveal.
The US Air Force dispatched an F-16 on Feb. 12, 2023 to confront the apparent “invading” orb over Lake Huron, blowing it to smithereens with what was likely an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, according to video released last month by the Department of War as part of its second batch of UFO files.
The 45-second clip shows a black “orb” with a dangling string in the fighter jet’s crosshairs for just a few seconds before it is blown apart.
The supposed video of a UFO being blown up over Lake Huron was nothing more than a massive
waste of taxpayer dollars, according to former government employees. U.S. Department of War
“The F16 shot at a balloon over Lake Huron. After the [Chinese spy] balloon embarrassment, DOD was shooting at every [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena] they detected,” Tim Phillips, a former interim director of AARO, told The Post.
The object belonged to a Boy Scout troop, according to Sean Kirkpatrick, a former head of the federal All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO.
“[The balloon] had circumnavigated the globe eight times before we shot it down with a half-million-dollar missile,” Kirkpatrick said at a conference on April 27.
“You can imagine the response on the Hill when I briefed that,” he said at that conference.
The orb was part of an ongoing, unspecified research project, Kirkpatrick added.
The destruction of the Boy Scout balloon came a week after the Chinese Spy Balloon debacle, which saw the feckless administration twiddling their thumbs for five days as a CCP recon operation was fully active in the airspace of the USA.
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