FuglyDuck , 9 months ago

To clarify, Miley calls it a spy balloon- just one that failed because it was blown off course (it’d motor was too weak to work against the wind)

So it was still a spy balloon whose purpose was failed because of a laughably foreseeable problem. (Anyone whose flown air balloons- including the dinky micro-R/C knows that you have to plan around winds and the drag forces of the wind pushing you.)