Eisen the Sky

The Peoples' Republic of China's errant "weather balloon" was shot down yesterday over the waters off South Carolina. We assume it was the U.S. Airforce that did it, since it is those waters it is entrusted to "protect."

Sitting Republican officials insisted the balloon should have been shot down earlier, but the Democratic president felt it unsafe to do so over land, for obvious reasons. Do we know what this balloon was carrying? Surely the president would have known in advance of his decision to "take it out". 

Are we still satisfied that the swastika-bearing Hindenburg that exploded in New Jersey in May 1937 was not an act of subterfuge by the Nazis, their supporters or their enemies?

There is so much we don't know, and never enough of what we suspect. Anything we suspect can be corroborated online by alchemists devoted to turning fiction into reality. That's just the way it is.