China’s suspected spy balloon gathered intelligence from sensitive American military sites as it flew across the U.S. in late January and early February, according to new reports Monday, fueling questions about why President Biden allowed the craft to travel across the country before it was shot down by U.S. military fighter jets off the South Carolina coast.
Citing senior U.S. officials, NBC News reported that the balloon was able to pick up signals intelligence such as communications from several military installations. The sophisticated surveillance balloon traveled over some of the locations multiple times while transmitting data back to Beijing in real time, NBCWhile the balloon was flying over the American homeland, Pentagon officials downplayed its ability to gather new information for the Chinese Communist government.
When asked for comment on the balloon’s capabilities, administration officials referred back to those February assessments, NBC said. President Biden previously said that the U.S. was able to predict the balloon’s path and took steps to shield sensitive information as its floated across the center of the country after entering U.S. airspace from Canada.
China maintains the balloon was on a civilian mission to collect weather data, and blew off course accidentally. But the Biden administration contended its trip across sensitive sites in the American heartland was a spy mission. The U.S. military recovered pieces of the balloon off the South Carolina coast after it was shot down Feb. 4.
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