What surprises me about all of this is maybe, just maybe we were collecting our own intelligence on the balloon, its intelligence gathering equipment and its operating parameters. This is what intelligence agencies do.
I mean, every enemy satellite operating today has already mapped every missile installation, airfield, military base and other sensitive facility. They have been doing it for years as have the US. This is nothing new and we have been doing it for at least 60 years to our enemies.
If anything, this is a “look, squirrel” false flag exercise to distract us from what is really going on in this country. Tie the balloon incident in with UFO’s and people will lose interest in why their infants do not have formula, why gas prices are sky high, why inflation is running rampant, why fentanyl is killing our youth, why young healthy athletes are dropping like flies, and why illegals are swarming our border and our cities are being destroyed from within.
“just maybe we were collecting our own intelligence on the balloon, its intelligence gathering equipment and its operating parameters. This is what intelligence agencies do.”
One of the news conferences sort of implied this. Then why shoot it down and destroy the payload? They might say we already know what it transmitted and we don’t need the actual equipment itself to tell us anything. Maybe. But I would have found a way to bring it down in a controlled manner off the coast of Alaska.