China has been operating an extensive spy balloon programme for at least five years which has seen covert flights taking place over neighbours Japan and Taiwan, a BBC investigation has claimed.
Synthetaic, an artificial intelligence company, worked through huge amounts of data captured by satellites, uncovering multiple images of balloons crossing East Asia. John Culver, a former CIA East Asia analyst, said the Chinese balloons were “specially designed for these long-range missions” and some had “apparently circumnavigated the globe”.
Read the full story: BBC
- By Sean O’Meara
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