As U.S. Navy crews continue to fish parts of the alleged Chinese spy balloon out of the Atlantic, a senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, gave reporters an update on Thursday on some of what has been learned so far.
High-resolution imagery from U-2 flybys showed that the balloon was “capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations,” and that its equipment was “inconsistent” with that of weather balloons.
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