The Chinese spy balloon that traversed US airspace before being shot down was roughly 200-feet tall, weighed thousands of pounds — and potentially carried explosives designed to destroy itsel…
“From a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky,” VanHerck said. “That’s really what we’re kind of talking about.”
“We did not associate the potential of having explosives with a threat to dropping weapons, those kinds of things, but out of a precaution, abundance of safety for not only our military people in the public, we have to make assumptions such as that.”
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