Hopefully more contextual information comes out about the past balloons instead of the drive by statement, of course previous administration is denying any knowledge of this happening under their watch, whether that is truthful is yet to be seen or was this kept under the pentagon top brass. Regardless it’s an occurrence that is happening, why aren’t we shooting them down at first sight? This balloon first crossed over Alaska, now there is no safety argument here as that state is more desolate than MT. Have the previous balloons crossed over Alaska and stayed in Canada so the assumption always was nothing to see here and not our problem now? The pentagon stated “briefly” in the US when addressing past balloons.