A senior State Department official said Thursday that the balloon “was capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations” and was part of a fleet that had flown over “more ...

US intelligence officials believe that the recently recovered Chinese spy balloon is part of an extensive surveillance program run by the Chinese military, according to multiple American officials ...

US intelligence officials believe the Chinese balloon identified over the US in recent days is part of an extensive, Chinese military-run surveillance program involving a fleet of balloons that ...

The US assessed that the spy balloon shot down last year was part of an extensive surveillance program run by the Chinese military, as CNN reported at the time. The balloon fleet, according to US ...

Spy balloon part of a broader Chinese military surveillance operation, US intel sources say By Katie Bo Lillis , Jeremy Herb , Josh Campbell , Zachary Cohen , Kylie Atwood and Natasha Bertrand , CNN ...