Press: Not the first hostile balloons hanging overhead


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No matter how powerful a country we are, we have the disadvantage of being downwind. That makes us sitting ducks for an invasion of unmanned, floating aerial objects from Asia. A Chinese spy balloon, first spotted 60,000 ft. over Alaska on Jan. 28, sent the entire nation into a panic — until it was shot down off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4. Five days later, in a rare show of bipartisan resolve and a vote of 419-0, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning China’s “brazen violation of United States sovereignty.” But that’s hardly the end of...