US Government May Have Shot Down Illinois Hobby Club’s $12 Balloon With $400k Air Force Missile

The United States government may have frivolously shot down a balloon belonging to a hobbyist group. A member of the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Politico the government may have accidentally gunned down an object that “could have been our balloon.” On Thursday, the balloon group wrote in a blog post that one of … Read more