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 ...

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

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 ...