CCP Spy Balloon Key Sensors Recovered By The U.S.

The United States military announced that the key sensors used for intelligence gathering were retrieved from the suspected CCP spy balloon that was shot down on February 4th. On February 13th, the U.S. Northern Command said in a statement that “Crews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified as well as large sections of the structure.” U.S. military said that the CCP spy balloon flew over the United States and Canada for eight days before President Joe Biden authorized the shooting and was shot down on February 4th off the coast of southern South Carolina. Later, U.S. forces had shot down three more flying objects in the past few days off the coast of Alaska in the northwestern United States, in the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada, and over Lake Huron on the U.S.-Canada border. Although the U.S. has not identified the source of the three flying objects, Defense Secretary Austin said they could pose an intelligence-gathering threat and a risk to civil aviation. John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said that after the CCP spy balloons were spotted, the U.S. recalibrated its radar and probed for slower-moving targets.

Meanwhile, Beijing continues to accuse the overreaction by insisting that the balloon was a civilian research airship that accidentally entered U.S. airspace. The CCP also claimed that the United States has illegally released more than ten high-altitude balloons into its airspace without providing any evidence. The White House has rejected Beijing’s latest accusation.