surely it just flew over doing absolutely nothing.
Interesting they say this, yet don’t confirm what it was actually doing. They obviously know what they were doing by now
Also why say this now? Is there some report coming out?
It didn’t successfully collect data. The actual statement indicates that it was blocked. Maybe jammed in some way.
So… why fly a spy balloon over foreign lands without collecting data? What was its purpose?
The whole point of using a spy balloon, rather than a satellite, is that it can remain on site.
China probably meant to use this balloon to monitor somewhere near its release site, maybe Taiwan.
It was blown way off course, China lost its ability to communicate with it, it could no longer collect information, it entered unauthorized airspace, and it was (appropriately) destroyed.
I’ll say…
that’s also what China said. lol.
