The U.S. government’s story on the Chinese spy balloon is changing again. This week, the Pentagon revealed it was tracking the suspected Chinese spy balloon from its launch site along China’s south coast, and was monitoring it days before it crossed into U.S. airspace near Alaska. U.S. officials watched the Chinese spy balloon lift off…

There have now been four flying objects shot down by the U.S. military in just over a week, with the first one identified as a Chinese surveillance balloon outfitted with sensors used for intelligence gathering. Though Beijing continues to deny it was a spy vessel, the incident has further strained its ties with Washington and…

China’s foreign minister accused the U.S. of having flown high-altitude balloons into China’s airspace 10 times since the beginning of last year. But National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that’s not true.  “There is no U.S. surveillance aircraft over airspace,” Kirby said. The former navy admiral gave the same answer when asked if that…

While China’s Foreign Ministry claims the high-altitude balloon the U.S. shot down over the coast of South Carolina was for meteorological research, it’s apparent that surveillance was China’s true intent. A balloon might sound like a rather pedestrian intelligence-gathering tool, but the U.S. sees China’s spying operations as another attempt by its government to gain…

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The White House confirmed that fighter jets shot down what they described as a “high-altitude object,” about the size of a small car, over Alaska. The Pentagon said they do not know the origin of the object and that it was unmanned. John Kirby, coordinator for Strategic Communications for the National Security Council, said the…

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Now that the U.S. has shot down China’s spy balloon with an air-launched missile off the coast of South Carolina, the question remains: what was it all for? The Chinese claim the balloon was a civilian meteorological device released accidentally, but the Pentagon isn’t buying it. For starters, why did the balloon spend so much time…

According to senior U.S. officials who spoke with The Washington Post, the Chinese spy balloon shot down over the weekend was part of a vast surveillance program ran by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Those officials say the program has been going for several years, partly out of the Hainan province off China’s south…