In the videos I’ve seen, you could clearly see “stuff” (my arm chair 5 star general guess? Mostly solar panels) raining down around the rest of the structure. From 60,000ft you can have a massive debris field, most people don’t seem to be thinking about that.A couple points -
First - shooting it down over the US has a risk of it hitting something important on the ground. House, child, school, whatever. You can’t control the trajectory after hitting it and there is a chance of fragmentation, yielding more objects hitting the ground. Sure, odds over Montana are low, but they are not zero. And they need to be zero in this case.
For laughs, but also why missile>bullets