Chinese spy balloon successfully gathered sensitive intelligence from US military sites.

A Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the US for days before being shot down was able to gather intelligence from sensitive military sites, according to a new report. The intelligence Beijing was able to access was predominantly from electronic signals, and the Biden administration’s work to limit the balloon’s ability to pick up those signals likely prevented much more sensitive intelligence from being gathered. Beijing has said that the aircraft was a civilian weather balloon blown off-course, but defense officials said the balloon had clearly been crossing over sensitive US sites with the apparent intent to monitor military areas.