The Pentagon documents allegedly leaked by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira indicate that there were up to four other spy balloons in addition to the ones we knew about.
No wonder the authorities were so desperate to get a lid on this situation.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Pentagon documents show up to four additional Chinese spy balloons: ReportThere are up to four additional Chinese spy balloons that have been noted by U.S. intelligence in a recent trove of leaked classified Pentagon documents, according to a report on Friday.A spy balloon that attracted national attention when it traversed U.S. airspace earlier this year was one of at least three other balloons documented by the United States. Another balloon flew over a U.S. carrier strike group in an unreported incident. The third crashed in the South China Sea, a top-secret document obtained by the Washington Post stated. It is not clear when the other events occurred.The Chinese spy balloon spotted in U.S. airspace was referred to as Killeen-23 by U.S. intelligence agencies. The balloon carried an array of sensors and antennas that the U.S. government still had not identified more than a week after it went down, according to the document allegedly leaked by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira.Two other balloons were referred to as Bulger-21 and Accardo-21 in another document. Bulger-21 carried surveillance equipment and was reportedly in the air from December 2021 until May 2022, a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency document said. The other balloon carried similar equipment and a “foil-lined gimbaled” sensor. The balloons are named after notorious criminals and in alphabetical order.The documents also detailed a lack of “strong senior” oversight of the balloon surveillance program, according to the report. The balloon invading U.S. airspace likely caught some of China’s government by surprise as a result, according to a document that relied on intercepted communications.
Is this why the media worked so hard to identify the leaker in this case?
Here’s a video report from ABC News:
More from National Review:
The balloons, which carry sophisticated sensors and antenna technology, were detailed in a report created by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on February 15.Speaking on conditions of anonymity, a federal official told the Post that the “government naming convention for such balloons is alphabetical, from A to Z. It appears that the balloons are named after notorious criminals, including Tony Accardo, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, and Donald Killeen,” journalists Evan Hill, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima, and Christian Shepherd wroe.The news comes as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reportedly refuses to allow Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit Beijing amid concerns that the FBI might publicize an investigation into the balloon affair.The CCP is “firmly opposed to the US continuously making use of the [balloon] incident for political purposes and hyping up the ‘China threat,’” the Chinese embassy in Washington told the Financial Times which first broke the story on Friday.
Remember when Democrats and the media told us the adults were back in charge?
Good times.
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