"Chinese Spy Balloon Navigated US Using American Internet Provider: Report"

A Chinese spy balloon that traversed US airspace utilized a US-based internet service provider to navigate and communicate with China. US intelligence officials, who were tracking the balloon named Killeen-23, obtained a court order to surveil it and gathered intelligence, including messages sent to and from China. The balloon, which China claimed was for meteorological purposes, was shot down by the US Air Force off the coast of South Carolina. It had been sending real-time intelligence about US military sites to Beijing and was equipped with American technology, possibly including synthetic aperture radar for high-resolution imaging. The incident has raised concerns about cybersecurity and espionage between the US and China.