This CCP balloon was huge with a payload the size of a bus. My theory is that previous CCP “weather” balloons were much smaller. So were dismissed. All these balloons were probing our defenses and responses. The most recent one was taking photos/spying and transmitting back to China.
“transmitting back to China.”
Eventually.
The largest Red Chinese intelligence organization outside of Red China is in Mexico..near Mexico City.
so they most likely sent the data there, and then that intel group sent it on to the home country-Red China.