I wonder...is there any value to:

- IDing components, maybe even using some x-ray tech like US satellites have

- Developing an idea of what this thing vacuums up, informationally

- Switching our monitoring posture to also vacuuming up the same as it travels along, as if we are co-spying on our own stuff

- Using the information product to help harden any sensitive information that was vacuumed, for counter-intel purposes

This would fit the general parameters of what the public saw happening (almost nothing, then bang as soon as the balloon is floating over literally nothing).