The US military and intelligence community had been tracking the Chinese spy balloon since it launched from a base on Hainan Island near the southern coast of China and officials are now studying t…
The US military and intelligence community had been tracking the Chinese spy balloon since it launched from a base on Hainan Island near the southern coast of China — and officials are now looking into the possibility that it may have drifted off course, according to a report.
The balloon wound up floating over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 and then entered Canada before strong winds appear to have pushed it south into the continental US on Jan. 31, the officials told the Washington Post, adding that analysts are examining the possibility that China didn’t intentionally direct the spy craft to penetrate the US mainland.
A senior US official told the Washington Post that China’s balloon surveillance program seems to be meant to “augment the satellite systems” the communist country has in place, and that it is “part of a larger set of programs that are about gaining greater clarity about military facilities in the United States and in a variety of other countries.”
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