"Pentagon officials said the balloon traveled from China to the Aleutian Islands near Alaska, and through northwest Canada over the past few days before arriving somewhere over Montana, where it was hovering on Wednesday."
Seems like a country with so much advanced technology could come up with something a little better than a balloon.
@jackjr Do you know how big that balloon is? It's carrying a payload the size of 3 school buses and the balloon itself is over 100' in diameter. You think that's low tech? Pentagon already said PRC is lying when they said it's a civilian weather balloon gone awry. They don't want to shoot it down because a payload that size, at that altitude (60K', 12 miles) would spread indiscriminate debris over a huge area. Even in Montana, risks casualties or death. It's now over St Louis so the risk would be much greater.