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Originally Posted by blueash
I can only say that brief is not defined in the official Dept of Defense release. I am sure that Hawaii does not qualify as the Continental US which means the lower 48 states and Alaska. And pertinent to your comment, the present administration did not allow days of violation. POTUS ordered the military to bring the balloon down on Wednesday and was advised that it did not present a risk and that waiting until it was not over land was their recommendation. And that is exactly what happened.
Now we will get the material that landed in 20 yard deep water, much more intact than had it landed on the ground and the risk of falling debris hitting people or structures was avoided with this well thought out response.
I appreciate the comment above from Aces
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My question is why China purposely had the spy balloon at 60,000ft instead of higher (perhaps in the prior admin) so that people in the US could SEE it from the ground? I imagine that the CIA is working 24 / 7 to answer THAT question. My 1st thought was that MAYBE it was a fake-out to cover up some OTHER activity like positioning submarines around Taiwan. But, by now I think that it would have been figured out. Maybe there IS more to find out and MAYBE (?) we will find that out someday?