Here is the inside story on the nasty CCP balloon that suveilled nuclear silos. However, people might want to stop spiking the football for a couple of reasons. One reason is Biden took too long to do it, and mostly, because we took too long.
China could also claim it’s a physical attack.
The inside story
At 60,000 or 70,000 feet a balloon can collect information with over 100 times the resolution of a Satellite. It should have never been allowed into US Air Space.
If we would have “surgically” shot this balloon down over land we could have recovered it almost intact, but that didn’t seem to be a goal.