Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declared that "the threat has been neutralized" after the airspace was closed for several hours. The unexpected shutdown of the entire airspace over El Paso, Texas, was reportedly related to federal officials disagreeing about the safety of anti-drone tests near the El Paso International Airport after the U.S. military shot down a party balloon earlier this week that it mistook for a drone. The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly ordered the airspace’s