A Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon was able to gather intelligence from several US military sites despite the Biden administration’s efforts to prevent it from doing so, according to NBC News. The balloon, controlled by Beijing, made multiple passes over some of the sites in February, at times flying in a figure-eight formation. The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images. The balloon spent a week flying over the United States and Canada before being shot down off the Atlantic Coast on President Joe Biden’s orders.
