Originally Posted by
Hilife
Balloon pilots are able to use varying winds at different altitudes for directional control (clearly within limitations and not an exact science) and even high-up using Jetstream’s, so for me, the balloons incursion of US airspace was no accident.
Yes, that fact has been mentioned several times already in the thread.
AFAIK, nobody has disputed it.
But of course that doesn't actually prove that the balloon was under such control. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.
See above post, for example.