Fox News host Maria Bartiromo turned a Chinese spy balloon into a dangerous John Le Carre novel storyline that has China using the balloon not to spy but to drop "solar powered surveillance equipment" that allows unlimited spying on America's nuclear silos from the ground.

It's a breach of US sovereignty. A Chinese declaration of war!!

Didi President XI send the balloon to challenge Kevin Costner for the Dutton Ranch so he could set up listening stations within Montana, undetected? Everybody watches Yellowstone, right?

Okay, I kid, but you get it.

Either way, Maria was on it.

Detected and tracked by US officials it still was able to travel from Alaska to Montana and hover above America's most important military installations. All the way to South Carolina until the Pentagon shot it down on Saturday after more than a week traveling throughout the country.

Now questions are swirling on the damage already done.

What did the balloon capture? Was it sending data back live as it traveled back to communist China?

Did it drop and disburse surveillance products powered by solar energy to allow unlimited surveillance, and why did it take U.S. officials so long to shoot it down?

Was it a test for the CCP, to see if it can send something into America's air space undetected?

And how much surveillance is communist China performing on America right now?

Somehow this weather-like balloon from China has turned into a dry run for Russians to violate and breach our sovereign territory with balloons dropping things on the ground which will be solar powered observation stations. Or something.

Who knew China doesn't have access to Google maps, Google Earth and its own spy satellites?

Let's celebrate with Maria with a little song.

Former Obama official Tommy Vietor is right:

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