Good Lord... If you're this upset about balloons, wait until you learn about satellites..
The military cannot just shoot down aircraft in peace-time without orders to do so; those orders ultimately come from POTUS, the Commander-in-Chief. According to the DOD, POTUS was not informed about the balloon until it was already crossing over Montana. When informed that it was a surveillance balloon, his orders were to shoot it down as soon as it was safe to do so. That's what they did. End of story.
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