U.S. failed to detect past Chinese spy balloons over United States, senior general says

A senior U.S. general responsible for bringing down a Chinese spy balloon said on Monday the military had not detected previous spy balloons before the one that appeared on Jan. 28 over the United States and called it an “awareness gap.”

The Pentagon said over the weekend that Chinese spy balloons had briefly flown over the United States at least three times during President Donald Trump’s administration and one previously under President Joe Biden. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command, said the balloon was 200 feet tall and the payload under it weighed a couple thousand pounds.

“I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that’s a domain awareness gap,” VanHerck said. He added that U.S. intelligence determined the previous flights after the fact based on “additional means of collection” of intelligence without offering further details on whether that might be cyber espionage, telephone intercepts or human sources.Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, a week after it first entered U.S. airspace and triggered a dramatic – and public – spying saga that worsened Sino-U.S. relations.

US failed, yes

Wow. What a waste of $800 billion per year. Defense contractors completely inept.

Just like they failed to detect and scramble jets on 9/11....

Then how did they know it came from China?

Actually the US succeeded in identifying them, the Department of Security guy said he chose not to report it because he felt Trump was 'too aggressive', as if thats a reason to withhold pertinent information like that. In my opinion, we arent aggressive ENOUGH against China.

They flew over Canada first with no detection

Incompetence originates in the Pentagon for this shit, and our Minister of Defence is responsible in Canada-

USA= more warmongering and suffering, when will they stop?

Canada failed last week

“The Pentagon said over the weekend that Chinese spy balloons had briefly flown over the United States at least three times during President Donald Trump’s administration” I have an ocean front property in Montana to sell you if you’re dumb enough to believe that.

Canada doesn’t even need balloons, look at the demographics of our major cities, surrounded and ready to surrender.

how bout reporting on Canada?

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