The return of unknown and suspicious balloons to the American sky
| American sources have said that an unidentified "small" balloon has been seen in the American sky once again. |
report Mehr News Agency According to Reuters, an unidentified “small” balloon has been seen in the American sky again, and the American media has said that the military is intercepting these balloons in the sky of the state of Utah in the western United States.
At least two U.S. government officials and one U.S. military official have confirmed the sighting and interception of the unidentified balloon, although they have said it likely poses no threat to U.S. national security.
It is still unclear who the unidentified balloon belongs to, although it is said to have a box or small cargo.
The arrival of unidentified balloons in the American sky has been in the news since last year. At that time, the United States claimed to have shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon with an F-22 fighter, but two months ago, more details of that event last year were released. In its recent report, NBC News claimed that before the news of China’s spy balloon entering US airspace was broadcast in this country last year, Washington intelligence officials were secretly collecting information about these balloons, including this information. It is possible to refer to the tracking of the internet service provider from America.
After the arrival of this balloon, which China called research and the reason for its entry into American airspace was a change in the direction of the wind, the US Air Force in February In 2023, an F-22 fighter jet was dispatched to shoot down this balloon in South Carolina.
NBC claims that at the time, US intelligence officials were tracking the balloon and discovered that the mysterious object used a US-based internet service provider. is.
The network has claimed, citing intelligence officials who did not want to be named, that the Joe Biden administration was seeking a court order to monitor the balloons. Although it is unclear whether the warrant was issued, the sources told NBC that information was collected during the balloon’s flight, including messages transmitted from China and vice versa, through a company. It has been done online inside America!
It is said that this balloon contained American technologies to collect images and information using them. At the time, Beijing insisted that the balloon was only used for research purposes and for meteorological purposes. In a statement to NBC about the Internet company that China used, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, confirmed that the object was a research balloon. After passing through Alaska and Canada, this research balloon moved to the coast of South Carolina and crashed in the same area.
Later, a 21-year-old member of the US Air National Guard leaked documents from the Pentagon that showed a high-altitude balloon with spying capabilities, possibly from “SAR/combined aperture radar” technology and electromagnetic data have been used for high quality imaging. The Pentagon has claimed that Chinese spy balloons have entered US airspace several times in recent years.
