Subject: Re: That balloon
Gen. VanHerck said NORAD tracked the balloon as it "approached Alaska. It was my assessment that this balloon did not present a physical military threat to North America,

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Of course, he would have to say that.

How could the general possibly know the payload was not a simple compressed canister of the latest virus cooked up in the Wuhan Lab waiting on a radio command or arrival at a preset GPS position to release the aerosol as it drifted along. Maybe the military has some of those X-Ray specs that used to be advertised in the back of comic books in a bygone era.