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Originally Posted by Whitley

Thank you for the response. After the initial post I reached out to my old college roommate who is a career military man. He got back to me yesterday. The balloon is so high that it has a very low internal pressure. A 50 caliber would puncture the balloon but it would not explode as it may at a lower altitude. The concern then becomes the device remaining afloat and entering a slow decline. This prevent them from choosing the location that it would fall to.

As already fully explained in Post #54.