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What Was That Chinese Balloon Really Up To?

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What's the Chance That the Balloon Hit the Water?

The debris could be found up to seven miles away from where it splashed into the water. The only thing they really need to track is that crash was the payload which is of course the stuff they want to study. Ros, what's the chance that when that thing hit the water, like all of its electronics just got fried or maybe it had a self-destruct setting? "That's entirely possible because again, this seems to have been quite an advanced Chinese surveillance balloon," she says.

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