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Remember the #chineseballoon incident?
Seven months later the top US general admits this:
"The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-chinas-spy-balloon/

But of course everyone now believes that it was Chinese aggression by way of spying, and that belief will not be corrected in the short term, because this admission won't make the headlines.

The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon

Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination of the balloon's wreckage.

CBS News

Now that the #ChineseBalloon is making some headlines again, is good to share what I wrote back in march on Weekly Balloon News # 11 - Chinese balloon edition

What kind of balloon it was? • Not an isolated incident, and not a "fleet" of spy balloons • Previous sightings. Connecting the dots • The first downing using missiles? Yes and No • The "secret" Chinese balloon base • Science on the edge of reality • The "weather balloon" explanation 70 years later

https://stratocat.substack.com/p/weekly-balloon-news-11-chinese-balloon

Weekly Balloon News #11 - Chinese Balloon Edition -

March 4th. 2023

World Balloon News

More on the Chinese Spy balloon affair in a recent article in the NYT.

According to US intelligence sources:

- Balloon was originally aimed at U.S. military bases in Guam & Hawaii but was blown off course

- People’s Liberation Army had kept Mr. Xi Jinping in the dark until the balloon was over the US. When he realized that it affected planned talks with Blinken, he berated senior generals for failing to tell him that balloon had gone astray

#ChineseBalloon #Press

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/us/politics/us-china-global-spy-operations.html

In Risky Hunt for Secrets, U.S. and China Expand Global Spy Operations

The nations are taking bold steps in the espionage shadow war to try to collect intelligence on leadership thinking and military capabilities.

The New York Times

"China appears to have suspended its surveillance balloon program following a major diplomatic incident earlier this year, when one of the country’s high-altitude spy balloons transited the United States, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence assessments told CNN."

"The FBI concluded its analysis of the balloon’s remnants earlier this year, and the Pentagon announced in June that the US government assessed that the balloon did not collect intelligence while flying over the country."

Honestly imo the second quote, (read the article for more), that is a lot of behind covering going on. On both China and the US side. They also still refuse to release information about the 2 other shoot downs.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/china-spy-balloon-program-us-intelligence

#spyballoon #chinesespyballoon #chineseballoon #ufos #balloon #surveillance

China appears to have suspended spy balloon program after February shootdown, US intel believes

Via CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/china-spy-balloon-program-us-intelligence

#ChineseBalloon #SpyBalloon #surveillance #Shootdown #China #Balloon #Press

#ChineseBalloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware to #Spy on #Americans
Blasted from the sky in February, Preliminary U.S. findings show the craft collected photos and videos but didn’t appear to transmit them, officials say.
https://archive.ph/M22Uj #china
National Security Adviser Tells China, U.S. Wants to "Move Beyond" Spy Balloon - Political IQ

In talks with China's Senior Foreign Policy Adviser, Jake Sullivan said the U.S. is "looking to move beyond" February's spy balloon incident.

Political IQ
"Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space" by @NYTimes (h/t @JetCityStar - Computer search found #ChineseBalloon in archived satellite imagery tracing back to initial climb from Hainan Island, China https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/20/science/chinese-space-balloon-incident.html #military #aviation #avgeek
Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space

A new analysis of satellite imagery traces the path of the Chinese balloon from its launch in China to the United States.

The New York Times

@lowqualityfacts

Seems to me that he whole thing is unnecessarily complicated.

What's the point in waiting for another actual balloon when all's needed is for someone to point at the sky and shriek, "Look! Another balloon!"

#ChineseBalloon #Balloon