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The Chinese spy balloon He crossed this year earlier this year, he could take pictures and collect some intelligence signals from American military locations, a source known to the CNN.
The balloon could transmit information in Beijing in real time, the source said, and the American government still does not know whether the Chinese government could delete data balloons. This raises questions about whether there is intelligence, the balloon managed to gather that they still do not know.
However, the intelligence community is not excessively worried about the information that the balloon managed to gather, said a person, because it is not much more sophisticated than what Chinese satellites can collect as orbit in similar locations.
On Monday, the American intelligence official said, “Although the analysis of the bubble, high-altitude, so far, it seems that its flight across the United States did not provide critical new insights to the People’s Republic of China.”
Now they also knew what Balon’s path would be and managed to protect sensitive sites and censors several signals before Baloon could pick them up, Officials said.
As CNN reported, the US intelligence community last year developed a tracking method What writes is the fleet of these Chinese balloons working around the world, which controls Chinese military.
The FBI still examines the balloon, but previous officials could collect additional information on how the device is radio, including algorithms used for balloons software and how it starts and designs.
CNN reached the National Security Council in the White House and the Pentagon for Comment. NBC was to apply first About the new intelligence.
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Ballon first moved to American airspace over Alaska before moving through Canada and down in Montana, where he hovered several days, leading to himself that it was trying to monitor sensitive military locations, like a Malmstrom Air Force base. That was ended From the USA from the east coast 4. February, and the incident further escalated tensions between Washington and Beijing, including the disposal of the Diplomatic Visit of the American Secretary of State Antonio Blinken in China.
The Department of State Department said in February that, as the balloon floated over the United States, it could have implemented intelligence surveillance signals. ”
Gen. Glen Vanherk, the commander of the American Northern Command and Norad, said that the United States “did not rated” that the balloon “presented a significant danger with beyond what already exists in acts on weeige technical means.”
Surveillance program, which includes a range of similar balloons, is partly running out of small Chinese province of Hainan, officials gave CNN. The United States does not know the precise size of the fleet of Chinese supervisory balloons, but sources speak CNN that the program performed at least two dozen missions during at least five continents in recent years.
About half a fight of these flights was in American airspace, although not necessarily gently on American territory, according to one official official with intelligence.
China claimed that the balloon was actually only a time balloon expelled on the course, and now assess the possibility that it was not intentionally maneuvered in Continental American by the Chinese Government, CNN export.
However, China held some ability to maneuver balloons, officials believe. And when the balloon was over Montana, China seemed to take advantage of her position to Loiter on sensitive sites and tries to collect intelligence.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
