possible that the balloon was blown off course by weather
A number of articles have suggested, as this one does here, that China flew a balloon over the U.S. somehow inadvertently. This makes no sense to me. Maybe you can’t steer a balloon, and you can’t always make it climb, but you can always make it descend.
Heading someplace you don’t want it to? Put it down in the ocean. Simple as that.
It’s odd that the coverage suggests so often that the balloon went where China didn’t want it and never mentions that they could obviously have had it stop flying.
