It's like one of those gender reveal parties 

Air Force Major: Spy balloon possible dry run for EMP weapon

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/balloons-called-top-delivery-platform-for-nuclear-emp-attack

High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials.
Spy balloons, used by Japan to drop bombs during World War II, are now far more sophisticated, can fly at up to 200,000 feet, evade detection, and can carry a small nuclear bomb that, if exploded in the atmosphere, would shut down the grid and wipe out electronics in a many-state-wide area.

The threat of balloon-launched electromagnetic pulse attacks was warned about by a congressional EMP commission and inside the military several years ago.
In a 2015 report for the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, Air Force Maj. David Stuckenberg, one of the nation’s leading EMP experts, wrote extensively about the threat balloons carrying bombs pose to national security.
“Using a balloon as a WMD/WME platform could provide adversaries with a pallet of altitudes and payload options with which to maximize offensive effects against the U.S.,” he wrote in the report.
“A high altitude balloon could be designed, created, and launched in a matter of months. There is nothing to prevent several hundred pounds of weapons material from being delivered to altitude,” he added.
On Friday, he told Secrets, "China’s recent balloon flyover of the United States is clearly a provocative and aggressive act. It was most likely a type of dry run meant to send a strategic message to the USA.

It would be nice if action was taken on the borders and the cartels!

Are we sure it belonged to China?

 Only if you believe what ((they)) tell you and that ship has sailed for me a long time ago.
Supposedly China has admitted ownership in some capacity. Who knows

Saw this posted somewhere else:

Wake up! Anyone heard about a thing named satelite ? Morons think a they would need balloons to conduct surveillance ?

Suuuure.  "Saaaatellites."  

In other words, the air force waited until the balloon had completed its mission before taking action.

Well it did come from the pentagon.

Fly over the country, get all the mindless idiots chattering about china, not what's really going on  all around themin their own country, then take it out.

Move on to the next " thing".

Just food for thought, but anything you see nonstop coverage by the MSM in this country you can just about always assume it's complete bs.

That's been  my bs detector for a long time now. anything they put out there is either a complete lie or the exact opposite of what their saying.

If they said that thing was from china, trust me, it was from here.

Just like Wuhan virus.

Agreed.  Before these things hit the continental US, they would have had to cross the Pacific, so the US would have seen them coming from miles away.  If they didn't, then all the taxpayer money they've stolen for national defense and even "Space Force" were just another embezzlement scheme.  So, the reason they say they didn't shoot them down was because they assessed that the threat posed by these things (assuming they were for spying) was outweighed by the possibility that in shooting them down these things would land on somebody or some buildings or something.  But if they saw them coming across the Pacific, they could have shot them down over the water before they got here ... and should have.

So, if they were of US origin, then this adds credibility to the theory that it's a setup to a fαℓѕє fℓαg where we'd take down the power grid ourselves and then blame the Chinese.  I don't know that the Chinese are denying that these are theirs, but these conspirators are all on the same page and working for the same (Jєωιѕн) people.

Similarly, there's good evidence that the corona virus behind COVID was of US invention, but that they tried to pin it on the Chinese ... as Trump always called it "the Chinese virus".  But it was a joint effort, with Fauci et al. funding the work done at a Chinese lab.  US and Chinese governments can then respectively claim that it was the enemy so as to condition their people.