I wasn’t aware of the fact that it was a private citizen or maybe multiple citizens who photographed it originally and contacted the FAA. It was only after repeated contacts, when the word got out did the administration acknowledge it was a Chinese balloon and only shot it down after repeated criticism by Republicans. Apparently they were going to allow it to return to China(who knows if there were previous incidents) not the BS Biden is trying to claim that it also happened during Trumps administration. They only shot it down because the public now knew about it and it would look bad if they didn’t eliminate it. What a clown show. I was semi joking when I commented the other day on a story here about it, that Biden waited to shoot it down until the info was downloaded in China and the Bitcoin payment to Hunter  made it into his account with  10% for the Big Guy. Maybe it wasn’t a joke after all!