Dont those f22’s have some kind of cameras, or why did they shot it down before having some information?
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1. If simply taking a photograph was all you needed, there wouldn’t have been a Project Blue Book in the first place.
2. When you shoot down objects from literally miles away, you might not get all that good of a picture. The flight ceiling of the F22 is 50,000 feet, the object is reported to have been at 60-70,000 feet.
They probably should have at least made sure that it was not a weather balloon. Almost anything else you can shoot down just for being in your airspace by international treaty, but not weather balloons.
EDIT: An additional note, the government didn’t say that they were unable to tell what it was. The spokesperson who released that information said that they, the spokesperson, didn’t have the information at this time.
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