A top general said the U.S. military has observed a number of high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloons flying over the Middle East and Afghanistan in recent years.
over its own airspace — the fourth airborne object the military has shot down in just over a week.
“This is the latest example of China scrambling to do damage control,” Watson said in a tweet. “It has repeatedly and wrongly claimed the surveillance balloon it sent over the US was a weather balloon and has failed to offer any credible explanations for its intrusion into our airspace, airspace of others.”
“We know that those balloons have traversed across many different countries, across many different continents, and we have been reaching out to our allies and partners, to many of those countries, to let them know what we have learned about that,” he said.
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