Coming Full Circle
Back when the Roswell incident happened, the Air Force claimed that they were testing a top-secret “nuclear weather balloon,” and that was why they had to deny press exposure of the crash. The Air Force released no comment when confronted about the legitimacy of their claims because scientifically, a weather balloon should not need nuclear power to function properly. In fact, this would have been a downgrade from the gas-powered model, because it was much more expensive and less consistent.
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