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Ummm, no. We recovered the balloons and they were full of surveillance equipment. They seemed to not have a way to phone home, so more than likely China’s plan
by mattmaroon 2y ago
Ummm, no. We recovered the balloons and they were full of surveillance equipment.
They seemed to not have a way to phone home, so more than likely China’s plan was to recover the balloon to get the data. That may be what you recall. For all we know they had been doing so for years successfully.
But they were definitely spy balloons.
- jameshart 2y agoThe US downed and recovered a Chinese balloon, not balloons. The 2023 incident is pretty well written up on Wikipedia[1]. There was one Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down. Subsequent shoot-downs of balloons over the arctic and Great Lakes were not attributed to China - one that was recovered was definitively identified as a private weather balloon. There were also previous Chinese surveillance balloon overflights - as well as one over Central America - that were not shot down. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident