Edward Snowden asked on Twitter if the White House spent a month climbing Jets Launch $400,000 rockets at the local hobby club’s $12 balloon.

What happened: The former US intelligence official said in a post on Thursday, “Lord have mercy,” and shared an article from Aviation Week with the headline, “Hobby club’s missing balloon feared by USAF to be shot down.”

The Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade according to the article, a “world-spanning” balloon is missing.

The club’s silver-coated “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 feet above Alaska’s west coast, and a forecasting tool predicted the inflatable would fly over the central Yukon Territory on Feb. 11, according to the report .

Why it matters: Feb. 11 is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same area, Aviation Week reported.

According to reports, some pico ballooning enthusiasts suspect that all three unidentified objects shot down between February 10 and 12 match shapes, heights and payloads of such inflatable boats, which typically cost between $12 and $180.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden addressed the airborne objects shot down, saying the current attitude is that these are not “nefarious” and probable come from private companies or institutions.

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