What Next TBD: What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Come to think of it, a giant balloon seems like a pretty conspicuous way to spy on another country. So what was that Chinese spy balloon doing above the U.S.—and what have American planes been shooting down since? Guest: Shane Harris, Washington Post reporter covering intelligence and national security. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.7	Would you like to say who you are? Sure. I'm Shane Harris, and I cover intelligence and national security for The Washington Post.
0:42.0	And I guess you are the unofficial, What Next TBD UFO correspondent.
0:47.3	How do you feel about that?
0:48.3	I feel great about it. I feel great about it. I feel like this is all coming full circle and happy to be wearing this hat today.
0:57.8	Two years ago, I had Shane on the show to talk about the intelligence community's big report on
1:03.2	UFOs, or UAPs, as they like to call them, unidentified aerial phenomena.
1:09.6	It was the first time the military and intelligence agencies
1:12.5	publicly laid out what they had seen
1:14.9	and couldn't quite identify in the sky.
1:17.9	So naturally, I thought of Shane
1:19.9	when the U.S. started shooting objects out of the sky
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