The Pentagon said Thursday that it has 'very high confidence' that the high-altitude surveillance balloon came from China and is being used to collect information from sensitive sites. Here's what we know about the balloon.
But, he said, the U.S. is using some of those fighter jets to"take a peek" at the balloon in its efforts to keep monitoring it.Canada also says it's monitoring a high-altitude surveillance balloon, though it's not clear if it's the same one. U.S.the balloon they are tracking flew over the Aleutian Islands and through Canada before it was spotted Wednesday over Billings, Montana.
"Canadians are safe and Canada is taking steps to ensure the security of its airspace, including the monitoring of a potential second incident," the Canadian Department of National Defence said in a"Canada's intelligence agencies are working with American partners and continue to take all necessary measures to safeguard Canada's sensitive information from foreign intelligence threats," it said.
A defense official"wouldn't characterize this as revolutionary," Myre reports, adding that what seems to be different this time around is the altitude of the balloon and the length of time that it's staying over the U.S.: During World War II, the crew of the USS New York spotted a sphere in the sky that they suspected was a Japanese balloon. After multiple successful attempts at shooting it down, they realized they were actually shooting at Venus.
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