The Chinese government claimed the U.S. has flown over 10 “high-altitude balloons” since 2022. From The Associated Press:
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details about the alleged U.S. balloons, how they had been dealt with or whether they had government or military links.“It is also common for U.S. balloons to illegally enter the airspace of other countries,” Wang said at a daily briefing. “Since last year, U.S. high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China’s airspace more than 10 times without the approval of Chinese authorities.”Wang said the U.S. should “first reflect on itself and change course, rather than smear and instigate a confrontation.”
National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson called the claim rubbish:
“It is China that has a high-altitude surveillance balloon program for intelligence collection, connected to the People’s Liberation Army, that it has used to violate the sovereignty of the United States and over 40 countries across five continents,” Watson said.“This is the latest example of China scrambling to do damage control. It has repeatedly and wrongly claimed the surveillance balloon it sent over the United States was a weather balloon and to this day has failed to offer any credible explanations for its intrusion into our airspace and the airspace of others.”
In the past eight days, the U.S. shot down four high-altitude objects in its airspace.
The first one flew across the country before the military shot it down. The Pentagon described it as a surveillance object from China.
China said the object was a weather balloon that got blown off course.
The Washington Post reported last week that China’s spy balloon program began several years ago.
However, General Glen VanHerck said he hasn’t ruled out anything including aliens. That explains why the military calls them objects and not balloons.
I personally would welcome our alien overlords. Now I want to watch Independence Day.
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