Let me get this straight. We can detect incoming missiles but we can’t detect a slow moving balloon drifting from Asia towards our homeland? We can predict the climate in 50 years but we can’t predict the most probable trajectories of the wind currents a few days into the future? Unless of course the ballon can be maneuvered by a foreign intelligence bent on our subjugation. In that case and in any case a Commander in Chief of the United States Department of Defense should have had the information that such a balloon was approaching our homeland long before it reached us and should have given the order that it either be destroyed or recalled by those to whom it belonged while it was still over international waters. That’s one of the primary responsibilities of the U.S. Federal Government and the people we elect to run it. They have failed or they are not being forthcoming with we the people of the United States.