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Exclusive: US intel assessment documents Chinese spy balloon incident under Trump - CNN
Feb 07, 2023 51 secs
The April 2022 report, titled “People’s Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” found a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 – while Donald Trump was president – at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida before continuing its journey,” the US Air Force document states.

The Air Force intelligence report is the first indication that the US military was aware of Chinese spy balloons well before the latest incident.

China has “deployed multiple HABs [high altitude balloons] that can operate at 65,000ft – 328,000 ft and for months at a time,” the assessment adds.

In the early days of the Biden administration, a Chinese spy balloon briefly transited the continental United States, as US officials have acknowledged.

CNN earlier reported that three suspected Chinese surveillance balloons drifted over the continental US during Trump’s time in office.

The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed the three other balloons to transit undetected, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.

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