100% cowflop
No, good intel! Hot air made the balloon rise, and when they shot it down with an arrow, it floated sown like a corkscrew.
Biden administration tried to hide Chinese spy balloon from American public
By Jon Levine
February 4, 2023
“President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.”
120% not even crusted over.
If you secretly gathered intel, you would not announce it to the world. Absolute bullshit!