Conspiracy Theory

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Now when these things begin to take place, look up, raise up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. - Luke 21.36

They say it came from China, this "balloon"
as big as a house and white as the moon,
so airy that radar couldn't spy it,
so calm that jets too fast passed by it.

They say they shot it down offshore --
no witnesses, natch -- but hundreds more
are roaming the world engaged in surveillance.
They say they haven't ruled out aliens.

I say consider the effect they caused.
When pundits and armies and autocrats paused,
we looked up in wonder from tirades and tangles.
They haven't said they've ruled out angels.

The photograph of the subject comes from a recent news story.
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