Interesting comment a few minutes ago about the balloon from a cell tower consultant on LIVENow:

Hugh Odom, Vertical Consultants: This goes on every day, especially in the rural areas of the United States, where the Chinese government, through Huawei, has infiltrated the rural areas through transmissions of 5G equipment throughout those areas…they are selling cheap equipment to rural areas so that they can get inside our transmission, for our military bases, but more particularly, our US citizens.

LIVE: Pentagon press conference on suspected Chinese spy balloon

Pentagon: The North American Aerospace Defense Command continues to monitor it [balloon] closely…it is currently over the center of the continental United States. We currently assess the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time.

Pentagon: We know that it's a surveillance balloon. We do know that the balloon has violated US airspace and international law, which is unacceptable.

Reporter: Is the Chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon, or is it just floating with airspace?

Pentagon: I'm not going into any specific intelligence…it has the ability to maneuver.

Reporter: Is the position of the balloon classified?

Pentagon: We're not going to get into a hour by hour location of the balloon…the public has the ability to look up into the sky and see where the balloon is.