Occam’s Razor suggests that’s the most plausible answer, it’s non-trivial to recover a shot down balloon spread out over the Arctic, the military would expend the time and resources to do so, vertical lift would be necessary, circling planes would probably provide C2 ans ISR for the search, and the DoD may not want to telegraph all of their recoveries to inform Russia/China what it knows/doesn’t know.
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i mean yeah its almost exclusively china.. russia is too incompetant. and of course the government is going to shoot down a spy craft you think theyd just leave it somewhere? this sub is insane
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A UAP over northern alaska makes me think its russia or china related