The U.S. tracked what officials called a Chinese reconnaissance balloon over the continental states. Amateur videos showed a large object flying over Montana. China said it was a weather ...

Washington pointed to evidence alleging the balloon was used for reconnaissance with antennas and other surveillance equipment. Beijing denied the allegations, but China has also had balloons fly ...

US Defense Department Press Secretary Patrick Ryder said on February 2 that US authorities had detected and were tracking a "reconnaissance balloon" over the continental United States. It was shot ...

China sent six balloons, nine military aircraft, and six warships near Taiwan within a span of 24 hours– one of the highest ...

In addition, at 7:20 a.m. on Friday, a seventh Chinese balloon was detected at an altitude of 6,096 meters moving east from ...

The US military is flying surveillance aircraft along the southern border with Mexico to collect intelligence and conduct reconnaissance, according to US defense sources familiar with operations ...

Napoleon I (1769-1821) used spy balloons, and the former Imperial Japanese Army reportedly sent for a French reconnaissance balloon to study its structure during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894 ...

China said the balloon was a civilian-use vessel released for meteorological research purposes. But the US claimed it was conducting reconnaissance. The US military went on to shoot down three ...

The balloon campaign came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged his military scientists to overcome a failed satellite launch and continue developing space-based reconnaissance capabilities ...

TASS/. The Russian military use reconnaissance balloons at the Russian-Belarusian joint strategic drills Zapad-2017 (West-2017), the Russian defense ministry’s press service said on Sunday.