The Chinese Spy Balloon Over My House

Main Street in the author’s town of Livingston, Montana. (Nick Fox / Alamy)
Walter Kirn on the floating intruder Montanans weren’t supposed to notice.
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Last week, when Montanans looked up at the sky—the fabled “big sky” that gives our state its nickname and remains clear and blue and well worth gazing at—they saw something odd. Some people reported the distant silver sphere to the authorities, it being a tradition in a state that was pacified by vigilantes back in the days of the frontier mining camps …

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