Biden watched a Chinese spy balloon photograph nuclear missile sites for a week and did nothing.
Now the man who ran Biden's UFO office just revealed what the military actually destroyed next.
Trump's Pentagon just released the footage – and what Biden's military actually killed will make you furious.
Biden's Chinese Spy Balloon Response Left Malmstrom Air Force Base Exposed for Seven Days
The Chinese surveillance balloon entered U.S. airspace January 28, 2023, and spent seven days overflying sensitive military sites before Biden ordered it shot down off the South Carolina coast on February 4.
During those seven days, the balloon maneuvered in figure-eight patterns over Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana – a nuclear weapons site housing intercontinental ballistic missiles – beaming data back to Beijing the entire time.
Sen. Rand Paul called it out immediately on Fox News: "This is probing our defenses even if there was no surveillance on board. They've gotten a great deal of information as to how sluggish the Biden administration is in their response."
Fox News Digital later revealed the delay wasn't just military caution – it was diplomatic cover.
Internal State Department documents showed Biden's team held private talks with Beijing on February 1, 2023, with then Secretary of State Antony Blinken telling a top Chinese diplomat that public disclosure of the balloon could have "profound implications" for the U.S.-China relationship.
China got seven days. They got the tour.
Pentagon UFO Shootdowns Destroyed a Boy Scout Balloon With a $500,000 AIM-9 Missile
The political embarrassment of letting a CCP surveillance platform complete a national tour triggered a full reversal.
Within eight days of the Chinese balloon's destruction, Biden's military scrambled jets and started firing at anything in the sky.
February 10 brought a shootdown over Alaska. February 11, another over the Yukon. February 12, a third over Lake Huron – each one treated like an imminent threat, none of them identified before the missiles flew.
Tim Phillips, former interim director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told the New York Post exactly what drove it: "After the [Chinese spy] balloon embarrassment, DOD was shooting at every [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena] they detected."
The Lake Huron target turned out to be a Boy Scout troop's research balloon.
Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of AARO who oversaw UFO investigation for the Pentagon, disclosed the full picture at an April 2026 conference.
"The worst one – absolute worst one – was they shot down a balloon that had a tethered package on the bottom. It had a transponder on it that was built, flown, and operated by a Boy Scout group. It had circumnavigated the globe eight times before we shot it down with a half-million-dollar missile."
Kirkpatrick paused before delivering the kicker: "You can imagine the response on the Hill when I briefed that."
Biden's UFO Overreaction Cost Taxpayers $1.5 Million and Hit Zero Threats
The Boy Scout balloon was not the only casualty.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade – a hobby group that tracks globe-trotting pico balloons – reported their $12 research balloon went missing February 11, 2023, near Hagemeister Island, Alaska.
The location matched exactly where U.S. forces shot down an "unidentified object" that same day with a $439,000 missile fired from an F-22.
Pentagon brass never confirmed the connection in public.
On a third occasion, a U.S. fighter pilot chased a UFO described as having "stealth-like capabilities" and fired a missile – only to destroy a star-shaped mylar birthday balloon from Walmart.
The Pentagon burned through more than $1.5 million in missiles during the February scramble alone, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis – and that figure excluded the cost of the fighter sorties.
One missile missed its target entirely.
China's spy balloon got seven patient days over America's most sensitive military sites. A Boy Scout balloon – one that had circled the entire planet eight times – got a half-million-dollar missile.
Biden then went on national television to explain himself – admitting the objects were "most likely" civilian. The man who let a CCP surveillance platform photograph Malmstrom Air Force Base had to stand before the country and confess he'd been blowing up hobby projects with heat-seeking missiles.
Trump's Pentagon released the footage and the American people finally got to see what Biden's military actually destroyed that February.
It was a black orb with a dangling string. Sen. Ted Cruz said Biden was "providing powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America."
Sources:
- Shane Galvin and Steven Greenstreet, "Biden admin used $500,000 missile to shoot down 'UFO' – that turned out to be Boy Scouts balloon," New York Post, June 6, 2026.
- "Rand Paul rips Biden for delayed Chinese balloon takedown: 'Looks very, very weak,'" Fox News, February 5, 2023.
- "Biden admin held private talks with Beijing on Chinese spy balloon ahead of notifying public, officials say," Fox News Digital, 2023.
- "Cruz responds after Biden allegedly authorized $200 million fighter jet to shoot down $12 science project," Fox News, February 2023.
- Cristina Laila, "WATCH: Pentagon Releases Video of Fighter Jet Shooting Down UFO," The Gateway Pundit, May 2026.