UFO shot down by US Air Force with $4,85,000 missile last week may have been $12 balloon

UFOs shot down by  US Air Force last week with a $485,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile could have been a $12 balloon, Norrn Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brige told Aviation Week. balloon belongs to  Illinois enthusiast club, source said. so-called "mystery" unmanned object taken out by military over Cana may have gone missing last week. re have also been "unsubstantiated" assumptions among Americans that recently shot-down UFO, which may be a Pico Balloon—belonged to extra-terrestrial beings. balloon went rift in direction of winds and was spotted 38,910 feet off west coast of Alaska. 

Pentagon scrambled Lockheed Martin F-22 to shoot down balloon 

US Department of Defense scrambled Lockheed Martin F-22 to shoot down  unidentified object.  amateur ballooning club, however, told outlet that 'unidentified object' shot down over Cana's Yukon territory a week ago, was ir wear balloon.  Norrn Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brige was formed by 10 friends two years ago. club's nae was inspired by  children's movie 'Up'. 

"When I heard that [it was a] silver object with a paylo attached to it, that could be one of our balloons," a member of Norrn Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brige, who spoke requesting anonymity with Politico, said. 

Balloon club's member noted that y were aware that balloon h flown off coast of Alaska. "We know where it was if all was well," anonymous member said. "We know that it didn't wake up that morning. We know y shot something down, and thing y described as having shot down is not inconsistent with what we're flying out re. So, that's that," he went on to d. NIBBB club that releases and tracks homeme balloons also declared last week that its K9YO device was “missing in action." 

In a statement me this week, US President Joe Biden h acknowledged that one of  balloons shot down among total three "did not appear to be hostile." " intelligence community's current assessment is that se three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying wear or conducting or scientific research," Biden said. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at White House presser that US "never found  debris from balloon." 

"We haven't recovered it so it's very difficult until you can get your hands on something to be able to tell. I mean we all have to accept possibility that we may not be able to recover it," said Kirby.