A Chinese balloon dropped off the coast of South Carolina in February this year was collecting data from US military installations. It has been reported NBC It refers to two current senior US administration officials and one former.
According to them, China could remotely control the balloon and make several flights over certain objects and transmit the information it collects back to Beijing in real time. It was noted that the collected information is not about the images that a balloon can make from the air, but the signals received from military bases.
It was noted that the balloon could have gathered much more information had it not been for the US’s efforts to conceal it.
Previously, the New York Post newspaper referred to information from the northern command of the American armed forces. WroteMilitary experts in the United States have found an electronic mechanism and sensors in the wreckage of a Chinese balloon that was dropped over the ocean. According to media interlocutors, the downed PRC bubble could be used to gather intelligence data. The administration of US President Joe Biden was confident that the Chinese bubble was “trying to control sensitive military installations” of the US.
China has repeatedly stated that PRC balloons do not pose a threat to the United States.