A classified investigation has revealed that the Chinese spy balloon, which traversed U.S. airspace before being shot down in February 2023, was secretly equipped with American-made technology from at least five different American firms, potentially aiding Beijing in its surveillance efforts, according to an exclusive report by Newsweek.
See the Must Read Alaska story from Feb. 2, 2023 at this link: https://mustreadalaska.com/spy-balloon/
The Newsweek report comes exactly one year after another alleged spy balloon was shot down just north of Prudhoe Bay. That event occurred Feb. 10, 2023.
The earlier balloon, which first entered U.S. airspace over Alaska, crossed a portion of Canada and then hovered over the mainland of the United States before drifting east. It was destroyed by a military jet off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023.
According to the two sources where were described as having direct knowledge of the investigation, the recovered debris contained components manufactured in the United States—technology that may have been used to spy on unsuspecting Americans.
The discovery raises serious national security concerns, as it suggests that Beijing may have exploited American technology to conduct espionage. Officials have not disclosed specific details about the technology found, but its presence on a foreign surveillance platform has intensified scrutiny over how sensitive components may have fallen into adversarial hands.
This revelation adds another layer of complexity to strained U.S.-China relations, with lawmakers demanding greater oversight of supply chains to prevent further security breaches. The Biden administration has yet to comment on the latest findings, but intelligence agencies are reportedly working to assess the full extent of the balloon’s capabilities and potential data collection.
This incident was one of several suspected surveillance operations by China in recent years. The discovery of U.S. technology on the balloon may prompt further regulatory measures to prevent American-made components from being used in foreign intelligence activities.
According to Newsweek, the tech payload equipped the balloon to survey and take photographs and collect other intelligence data, Newsweek‘s sources said, speaking anonymously. But there was more.
“The ballon might also have been carrying launchable gliders that could collect more detailed data, since it had empty storage bays, they said. Chinese scientists have developed gliders to be used with such balloons, according to aerospace research papers reviewed by Newsweek,” the publication wrote.
“The 75-page analysis of the parts recovered from the spy balloon and from what appeared to be two other balloons whose parts were collected elsewhere was carried out by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center in Ohio where a Foreign Materiel Exploitation Squadron examines foreign technical equipment, the sources said. Newsweek did not review the analysis itself,” Newsweek wrote.
Now that the news has been leaked, the Pentagon is expected to provide further updates.
US-made technology “Sold to China”, Persons of interest Joe Bidum, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer.
Probably funded by USAID.
China hysteria might keep your mind off the increase in homelessness, inflation, housing costs, food, medicine, and everything else the elite have mismanaged in the country. And that’s special.
USAID probably financed all of it.
China is everywhere. They’re not given access to our technology they pirate it. They have in their employ several retired military and security experts as highly paid consultants. Ever wonder why their military equipment (planes and ships) look just like ours?
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Why am I not surprised you can quote Lenin without hesitation?
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln
So, the Chinese Communist dictatorship knows what was on the spy balloon, but the American people are kept in the dark?