[obmelvin]

The military isn’t allowed to shoot down drones in the US. There was a WSJ story last month about drones flying over Langley for 2 weeks. All the general could do is stand on the roof and watch

[ANewFormation]

Yeah they can only shoot down unidentified weather balloons.

[bee_rider]

IIRC there were multiple instances of the balloons and the one they shot down was intentionally shot down in a relatively safe area.