They have satellite data, they don’t need to eyeball a balloon.
There’s a ton of data over decades showing prevailing winds.
There’s an overall structure to the winds, but flux is perpetual.
It doesn’t make sense…
They need a balloon if they wanna know the prevailing winds there So they can see where the prevailing winds go and avoid nuclear fallout blowing to China; right now it seems like if that balloon is floating west to east that means prevailing winds at this time of year would blow it all across the country and not towards China. I think much of the world has come to the conclusion that the greatest threat to world peace is America, America starts wars when a politician needs a few more points on his poll numbers