Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… as U.S. officials continue efforts to collect debris from a Chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast of the Carolinas last weekend, we are learning more about the aircraft’s capabilities, as well as similar past incidents involving balloon surveillance over the Americas. In our analysis this week, we’ll be looking at 1) the controversy that has been brewing since the end of the spy balloon’s strange journey across the U.S., 2) what we have learned about the technological capabilities of the balloon and its payload, and 3) why the Chinese spy balloon incident has led to increased debate over the Pentagon’s investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena.
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