US officials explicitly said recovering the payload was a high priority. In part, that is why they chose that particular location to shoot it down. https://www.

US officials explicitly said recovering the payload was a high priority. In part, that is why they chose that particular location to shoot it down. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-recovering-chinese-spy-balloon-was-key-to-response-2023-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-recovering-chin...