The officials tracked the balloon for a week before reports came out about it over Montana.
The balloon didn’t enter U.S. airspace until January 28. The officials confirmed the balloon on February 2nd.U.S. monitors watched as the balloon settled into a flight path that would appear to have taken it over the U.S. territory of Guam. But somewhere along that easterly route, the craft took an unexpected northern turn, according to several U.S.
The balloon floated over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands thousands of miles away from Guam, then drifted over Canada, where it encountered strong winds that appear to have pushed the balloon south into the continental United States, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive intelligence. A U.S. fighter jet shot the balloon down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, a week after it crossed over Alaska.
But the officials are also “confident it was intended for surveillance.” They can’t ignore that the balloon hovered “over nuclear sites in Montana.” Therefore, even if entering the American mainland was an accident, “Beijing apparently decided to seize the opportunity to try to gather intelligence.” The Washington Post explained when the balloon was about 1,000 miles south of Japan on January 24, “it began to gain speed and rapidly veer north,” quite possibly because “of a strong cold front that had
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