wow, this story just keeps inflating. So they have been floating 10+ balloons for years over our allies? Can the DOD and all them confirm all these other balloons were being "scrambled"? Can they have any evidence of that about this last one?
I love how these unelected people in the military or federal bureaucracies connect to the military, etc, hide this stuff from the elected government like the president and his cabinent, senate and house intel committees, etc
So we allowed them to go over Naval bases, Hawaii, Norfolk, and Coronado, as well as our internal ICBM and other sensitive sites. And despite scrambling the balloons apparently, the chinese keep sending these balloons for years now?
This makes absolutely no sense lol
Meanwhile, at a Pentagon press briefing, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder disclosed that China had conducted four balloon surveillance missions over "sensitive sites" within U.S. territory during recent years, but did not disclose exactly when or where the incidents took place.
"They were over sites that would be of interest to the Chinese but I'm not going to go into the specifics," Ryder said.
However, a senior U.S. official told ABC Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz that previous incursions into American airspace took place over Hawaii and off the coast of the continental U.S. -- specifically near Coronado, California, and Norfolk, Virginia -- where two of the nation's largest naval bases are located.
That official also advised that the U.S. had briefed India, Japan, Vietnam, and Taiwan -- all of which appear to have been surveilled by Chinese balloons.