[rx]

"it was targeting in the optical band"

!!     Baloney. This was all about SIGINT, not sightseeing or meteorology.

Nothing two orders of magnitude less significant than this comes out of China without being a closely calculated, CCP/PA event.

[PIF]

This was all about SIGINT

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And specifically about ELINT.

[takebackaustin]

“it was targeting in the optical band”

That was in reference to how the video narrator said the missile targeted the balloon, not the purpose of the balloon.