Former President Joe Biden may not have discovered alien life among us…
But he did spend a small fortune shooting down balloons from Boy Scouts and birthday parties. And it’s only now coming to light thanks to President Donald Trump’s decision to declassify the federal government’s UFO files.
In one recently declassified video from February 2023, the Biden Administration authorized the use of a $470,000 AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile to shoot down a so-called UFO over Lake Huron.
It turned out to be a balloon from a Boy Scout troop project — and you can see the balloon string clearly dangling. Watch the video for yourself… and then keep reading, because there’s more.
Biden SCRAMBLED F-16 to shoot down ‘UFO’ with $500,000 missile
It was just a Boy Scouts BALLOON floating around — NYP
Footage released as part of ‘UFO FILES’ last month pic.twitter.com/7t06rabXO8
— RT (@RT_com) June 6, 2026
So nearly half a million dollars on heavy artillery to blow a Boy Scout balloon out of the sky.
That would have been bad enough — but the Biden Administration wasn’t done spending big to keep Americans safe from helium balloons.
Also in February 2023, the Biden Administration launched a $400,000 missile at what it believed to be a UFO. It turned out to be a hobby balloon from a group known as the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade.
And that’s not all.
Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the federal All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, recently told the New York Post that a fighter pilot was authorized under the Biden Administration to launch an expensive missile at an object moving strangely in the sky.
It was a mylar balloon from Walmart that said “Happy Birthday” on it.
Joe Biden may not have won the war on balloons. But he definitely fired the first shots.
And it looks like we all paid for it.