China Says US Should Return Debris from Balloon It Shot Down

Yes… funnily enough this will probably happen…

But while they are securing it, and making sure they have all the pieces and putting everything in a nice safe shipping container to send back to China… they’ll give it the full “Lunik” treatment and learn everything they can…

Oh and any on board data storage will have unfortunately not survived the crash or the time in salt water or both, probably mostly the salt water since that’s easier to convincingly make happen…

Oh and because the Chinese won’t trust that it wasn’t now a bugged Trojan horse, they will probably shred the whole thing the moment they get it back to avoid any possible counterespionage.

Spook shit… sometimes looks a surprisingly like a Scooby Do hallway chase sequence when you break it down to a play by play sequence.