WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is monitoring a suspected Chinese spy balloon which has been flying over the United States, US officers mentioned on Thursday, a spy-movie like intelligence assortment technique that recollects the lengths to which Beijing and Washington are prepared to go to spy on one another amid elevated tensions.
“Clearly the intent of this balloon is for surveillance,” a senior US protection official, talking on the situation of anonymity, mentioned.
The official mentioned that Washington had been monitoring the balloon because it entered US airspace a few days in the past, together with by observing it with manned US navy plane.
Senior US navy leaders thought-about capturing down the spy balloon over Montana however finally beneficial towards it due to the potential security threat from particles. — Reuters
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