It also raises questions over the role of private companies ... Beijing said at the time that it was a meteorological balloon ...

Taiwan regularly detects Chinese balloons over its waters and has described ... Beijing said it was a civilian airship blown off-course. The number of balloons spotted on Friday is one of the ...

A senior defense official told NBC the balloon entered the U.S. over Alaska before flying over Canada and making its way to Montana, where it was seemingly surveilling Malmstrom Air Force Base ...

This strong wind current is often defined as upper atmosphere winds that blow faster than 57 miles ... which will carry the balloons around the Earth. Therefore, for global balloonists, troughs ...