Well, it looks like the U.S. government fired a $400,000 missile to shoot down a $12 balloon. This is your gas dollars at work? We know this because the balloon’s payload was some weather gear installed by the group that launched the balloon.  These foreign agents were, in fact, a group of Illinois weather balloon hobbyists.  These folks look real dangerous.

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Here’s the full report from Twitter.