A frighteningly farcical series of events involving laser weaponry, the FAA, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Pentagon has been retold by a trio of insiders talking to the Wall Street Journal. The punch-line, reportedly, is that the advanced LOCUST laser weapon system was used to shoot down party balloons over the U.S-Mexico border.
It is difficult to condense this self-satirizing chain of events, but as briefly as we can; agents from the CBP used an advanced Pentagon laser weapon to target ‘Cartel drones’ over the U.S.-Mexico border. However, insiders assert that the FAA had warned the CBP not to go ahead, had to suddenly close airspace over the target area, and diverted and delayed numerous flights for safety. The cherry on the silly cake is that the CBP actually shot down aerial objects that “turned out to likely be party balloons,” says the WSJ, which has sources who have had eyes-on debris analysis reports.
