[null and void]

Highly doubtful. The only anti-air missile that may have been able to reach up to 200,000 feet is Russia's anti-ballistic missile, which is deployed in fixed sites around Moscow. Morever, that missile is nuclear-tipped.

I think we would have noticed that.

[steveegg]

Not to mention Texas FReepers, media, et al would all be in the dark (200Kft is a sufficient height to induce a space-based EMP pulse that would cover tens of thousands of square miles).