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Because theyre in the atmosphere rather than in space. the chinese programme which the first spy balloon belonged to, us officials say, is run by the peoples liberation army, and its been running for years, with at least three balloons over us airspace during the previous trump administration. but both the us and china may have been keeping quiet about what was going on. thats normal for espionage, but now everyone is looking for these balloons. i want people to know that well do whatever it tak...

Balloon and im not going to be able to be more specific than that. china responded by saying it was just a weather balloon that had been blown off course. the us military said they couldnt shoot it down for fear of causing debris or damage below, so it was only when it drifted across america and out over the atlantic that they eventually shot it down. the spotting of the first balloon led north american air defence — norad — to adjust their radar settings. domestic political pressure may hav...

Where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what theyre really up to, you mean? what do we know about the chinese balloon programme, then? so, we know that they have been doing this throughout the world, that a lot of these are connected. and this instance with the united states ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command confirms it launched aircraft to investigate an object that was spotted flying over the state of Texas yesterday

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A dart at a balloon? there was outcry in america as to why a massive spy balloon had not been spotted and shot down earlier. but that meant in the next few days, they were now seeing many more of what were described not as balloons, but objects. if anything enters into our airspace, whether we know what it is or not, we will monitor it and well take appropriate action. one was seen over alaska and shot down near a place called deadhorse on february 10th. the next day, another object was shot dow...

Typically tries to protect. people at first thought, why balloons? but i guess your point is that there are things balloons offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what theyre really up to, yo...

And at the altitude where this balloon was flying, there is a very stable and predictable wind pattern between china and north america. so what are the balloons actually being used for? the answer is espionage. they carry sensors to collect signals and data as they fly over locations. us officials are analysing the wreckage they recovered from the sea in order to try and understand what exactly those sensors do and what china was after. you dont need to get into specifics, just, did we know what...

Do we know what information it was trying to gather from the united states? it didnt fly over us by accident. it was intentional. do we know what the chinese communist government was looking for? senator, we have some very good guesses about that. and we are learning more as we exploit the contents of the balloon and the payload itself — ok. what might the chinese be trying to find out? lee hudson covers defence and aerospace for politico. lee, what were these balloons doing, particularly thes...

Human rights, whether its on security behaviors, whether its on cyber attacks are concerns like that were going to have to continue to be wide eyed and clear about the threat that china poses and wants to pose to the stability of our democracies. you know that language reflects what both us and canadian officials fear is a menacing posture that canada china is holding both in canada and the united states. cant youll remember that balloon chinese balloon reversing not just canada but obviously th...