It just seems unpractical and low tech
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This is all speculative:
Balloons that size can carry all sorts of equipment. Weather patterns are important for warfare but would be impossible to accurately predict. A baseline is good, however. It could also be tracking radar sweeps to analyze air defense. It could just be seeing what communications are at that altitude. Photography would be the lowest on my list as satellites do that already.
Or it could just be a weather balloon that traversed the US, because that’s the way the wind was going and we shot it down for theatrics with the worry that if we did nothing, it would be used politically.
Who’s to say.
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