Some news reports are that this is a weather balloon which went off course. It innocently went off course carried by the winds to America.
This seems hard to believe. I sure wish we would disable/capture it, so we could verify what equipment is aboard this aircraft.
Apparently the Biden administration posture, is to observe the aircraft, without making any efforts to disable or capture it.
Why would the Chinese need a balloon to spy when they super sophisticated satellites in space that can spy on us ?
If it went off course, it wasn’t innocent. I don’t think any of the currents it was on, from what I have read, originate in or near China.
It was at 40,000 feet.