Balloons and drones are either Chinese and/or 3 letter agencies in origin...
Or they really are UFO’s, UAP’s and aliens from another planet.
I don’t know what exactly they distracted us from, but they sure made several news cycles again and again.
Indeed they did make several news cycles.
They found the launch site in China. I saw a nice Google earf of it. It has been launching these things all over the place.
But the important part is that is we would never even have known about the balloon if some hill billy hadn’t spotted it and started asking questions.
Maybe that guy was a plant or something, and it really was a squirrel. But I think it was the real deal... allowed to occur for some reason.