"I kind of wonder why we didn't shoot it down the minute China denied it was theirs," he says. "It would have been some, you know, if their story is true, it would have been a terrible tragedy because it would be civilians." He asks: If you see a giant balloon over your missile silos and has Chinese writing on it, how long do you wait?

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