More likely generating a targeting matrix for various reasons. Imagery or who knows what else.

Run-on sentence: Or the coming blue beam fake alien invasion (which the china balloon and new 'UFO' over Alaska are precursors for getting people looking at the sky) is actually its successor tech "green beam" which is actually decades old and they can't produce the "alien ship" holograms in a believable way without visible green projection lasers visible at some times, so they're prepping the populace to expect to see "green lasers being shot down by objects in the sky" instead of "non-object projections being displayed in the sky via the green beams".