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…
