It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Chinese balloon. Again?
What we know about the Chinese spy balloon and what questions remain.
Today I am doing what I do. Centralize information, guess how much the government is lying, and ask questions.
Over the weekend, the news cycle has been dominated by a balloon. Not the kind that you pick up on a Friday afternoon for a birthday party but the kind the Chinese government uses to spy on its adversaries.
To provide some perspective on the size of this balloon, Gen. VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), said that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall and weighed “in excess of a couple thousand pounds.”
He also said that officials believe it potentially carried explosives “to detonate and destroy the balloon.”
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