Biden admin used $500,000 missile to shoot down UFO that turned out to be Boy Scouts balloon

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 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.The Biden administration wasted more ammunition shooting down another hobbyist balloon on Feb 11, 2023 over Alaska.A US F-22 fired a $439,000 missile at a research balloon which cost $12 and belonged to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, The Guardian reported.On another occasion, a US fighter pilot reported encountering a UFO with “stealth-like capabilities” and was authorized to fire a missile �...