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It's a fucking balloon, it's propulsion is wind and it stays up by being lighter than air. How hard it is to grok that?

More like, after the recent poor press they received, military has to actually deal with various balloons instead of just presuming that no one will ever notice them.

It is possible previous balloons were smaller ones so they weren't spotted by people, thus military could pretend they don't exist, while this one was big enough to be spotted by people on the ground and thereby couldn't be ignored. Keeping up appearances is important.

US secures perimeter around spy balloon to stop China from reaching it

There were worse incidents during the cold war, like US spy plane being shot down deep into Soviet airspace, MiG-23 flying across West Germany, Netherlands and crashing in Belgium (turned out it was an accident) and the worst one being shooting down South Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet...

The problem with trying to shoot it down with gun is that these balloons usually have cellular structure and fuses are usually not sensitive enough for shells to be denoted, so you need missile, probably sidewinder targeting the side of balloon that is warmed by sun. That is if the balloon is...