“US Shoots down third UFO! Is the Balloon War starting now”

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People’s Republic. But the UFO sighting sounds more like a fabrication with which the regime wants to distract from its own spy flights.

Nevertheless, Beijing is behind at least one of the recent balloon missions. And Washington has already gathered enough evidence to refute the Chinese fairy tale of a “weather balloon.” To that end, it became known that four other China balloons had violated U.S. airspace in recent years. At that time, the Pentagon did not take the threat so seriously.

The People’s Liberation Army relies on spy balloons because they stay in one place longer than satellites circling in Earth’s orbit. This allows the Chinese military to take pictures of U.S. bases in peace.

However, satellites have one advantage: they do not infringe on a state’s sovereignty, foreign policy expert Jonathan Cristol states.

“But satellites are less useful than aircraft or, it seems, balloons for intercepting primarily ground communications.” They shoot highresolution photos and videos; radars

For days, objects entering U.S. airspace have kept security forces busy: here, FBI officials investigate a Chinese spy balloon collect data. Balloons would also be much harder to track. And less risk of “military confrontation.” Beijing would have calculated “to get away with it,” Cristol added: “That worked in the past, but will be much harder in the future.

The People’s Liberation Army relies on spy balloons because they stay in one place longer than satellites circling in Earth’s orbit. This allows the Chinese military to take pictures of U.S. bases at leisure.