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Maybe this? "Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US": https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

• mc32 4y ago
  Wouldn't shooting down presumably publicly undisclosed surveillance on civilians something they want to keep quiet and the public unawares of? Shooting them down does the opposite of hiding something --these new objects are small enough to go undetected by people on the ground.
  • randomdata 4y ago
    All three were headed to Canada and the latest two were already in Canadian airspace before being taken down by the US military. Reports don't make it seem like they were anything Canadian forces wouldn't be able to handle on their own, so why is the US military so concerned with patrolling Canadian skies? If you want to run with the given theory, perhaps it is that Canada is well aware of them and doesn't want them surveilling Canadian lands, thus the US military is taking them down at their expense to keep peaceful relations.