Chinese spy balloon contents revealed two years after it was shot down over US Mystery over a Chinese spy balloon that was shot down after the crossing the United States has taken another twist.
And now two years on, two military sources told Newsweek that the giant orb was packed with US technology which may have aided the Chinese to spy on the US.
The Pentagon said that the balloon, about the size of three school buses moved at an altitude of about 60,000 feet and first entered US air defence north of the Aleutian Islands on January 28.
It was shot down on February 4 about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina, a single F-22 fighter jet from Virginia’s Langley Air Force Base — flying at an altitude of 58,000 feet — fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder into it.
It flew over sensitive airbases and nuclear missiles in underground silos during its path across the country with the United States saying it was a Chinese spy balloon without doubt.
