Step One: Be somebody in the military industrial complex and or the Pentagon who doesn’t agree with UFO disclosure.
Step Two: Get some of your advanced man-made drones that have antigravity tech and have them fly around but be sure to only fly them in a way that resembles a balloon. You make sure that your drones do not make sudden changes in direction and you don’t fly them at supersonic speeds.
Step Three: Let them be shot down and then immediately in public express confusion about what they are. Collect any physical evidence from the crashed debris and hide it.
Step Four: Come out later with strong video evidence supporting the theory that they were all just a new type of advanced balloon.
Congratulations you’ve now pushed back UFO disclosure by a few months.
A major question is why the debris is being studied by the corrupt FBI. They are not the experts. The military exploitation teams are the experts.
I would bet that the other "shoot downs" really did not happen. Only the first one. The follow on ones were to create better optics.