Well you know it's Forbes just making crap up.
I can see the narrative is changing again. Because the US went overkill on a balloon, they have concoct a story about massive fleets of threatening spying balloons to justify it. Now that they're shooting down anything not knowing what they are, we're back to aliens when they just said all those stories of UFOs in news recently they're saying were from China but then now they're not. They were wracking their brains because claiming they were Chinese which meant China had technology the West doesn't have which conflicted with how they want to dearly believe Chinese are inferior to them. So we're back to aliens because then the US can say they took on an advance force and won.