>>If it tracked near the Alaskan Allution islands did it not also travel over Russian land mass?
The probable path based on backward-projection of weather models has it passing over the southern end of South Korea and the middle of Japan before heading northeast to the Aleutian Islands.
The jet stream often has loops to the north and south of its average path. That’s why we get weather like the recent cold snap.
Yes.....
I finally found the tracking maps. The balloon did not travel east out of Russia but rather northeastward out of the sea between Korea and Japan. The rig suspended below seems quite heavy and very elaborate