Oh my goodness! This is such b.s. A few miles off the coast of the Carolina’s should be one of the easiest places to retrieve such an item. Or, at least pin-point its location and surround it with security vessels to protect the area until the appropriate ship and personnel can arrive there to actually take possession of it.
Has our military sunk so low that it cannot pinpoint and take charge of such a spy satellite? I remember decades ago, the military (and media) being on site as the first space shuttle capsules arrived back on earth. Even then, they had no problems in locating and being at the ready as each one splashed down over the period of at first a few years, and then a few months. I also remember being amazed that they could find such an object in the big vast oceans.
We have been fed a major dose of b.s. from the beginning on this security encroachment on our nation. Everyone from the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Biden, the pretend Commander in Chief should step down over such failures!
Our nation has never before been governed (controlled?) by such traitors (not inept—for this is deliberate) as “leaders” since it’s founding. Even many of those who made policy mistakes before at least had the excuse of lack of knowledge or incorrect information for their mistakes. With this crew, you know it is pure evilness and their hate of America and all it stands for. We truly have traitors in our midst!
Remember when Navy ships picked up astronauts from a NASA space capsule in the 1960’s?
This is just lies. We can drone strike a cockroach from miles away and pinpoint our missiles like Sulimani when we want.
Balloon.
And the answer is "no". That this tall tale is even plausible is an indictment of our civilian political "leadership", not our military.