I do hope that’s what it is after the neglect the Chinese balloon got. Japan although are Ally’s now was casing and taking a lot of pictures of military bases and pearl harbor including identifying the ships they were to target to the pilots before the attack.
One clue although was they said anyways it stopped on Thanksgiving Day but any foreign adversary could camouflage themselves to look American not to draw attention. Then on the other hand they looked like they were calling for attention with the amount of them especially when they followed the Coast Guard. I could also see where they wouldn’t’ say it was foreign not to cause panic. The problem is we can’t trust anything they say anymore.
If it’s a distraction it’s rather amateurish. It’s not going to stop the attention. Trump is getting, especially by making them look stupid or incompetent with security. It’s just going to demand more people are replaced.