NORAD reports the balloon was roughly 200 feet tall and carried a payload weighing more than a couple of thousand pounds.
Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command, revealed some chilling details on Monday about the Chinese spy balloon.
During a call with reporters, he revealed that the balloon carried explosives to destroy itself, was 200 feet tall, weighed thousands of pounds, and its payload was the size of a jetliner. …………
“Biden ordered the balloon shot down Wednesday, but the U.S. military held off until Saturday, with the Air Force sending an F-22 fighter jet armed with an ancient 10 foot long and powerful $350,000.00 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile to do the job.” The cost of an F-22 is $216 Million Dollars and it costs $68,000.00 an hour to operate. All tolled it probably cost America several millions of dollars to track, surveil and destroy “Biden’s Balloon.” 
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Why wasn’t is disabled when it was over the Aleutian Islands?? Or when it was over the Pacific Ocean???
Former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army and retired four-star General Jack Keane blasted Biden for not taking action sooner, allowing the balloon to drift over the breadth of the country before ordering it shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.
Keane made his remarks during an interview with Fox News after the balloon was splashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
“Remember, this was approaching the United States over water,” he said. “It was approaching the Aleutian Islands over water. And we had plenty of opportunity to take it down then. And that’s when it should have happened. We had to be tracking it from mainland China across the Pacific Ocean, and we had plenty of warning to put together an operation that we are conducting now on the East coast that should have been done there.”
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