The suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over the US was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, officials have said.
China was able to steer the surveillance balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time.
This is despite the White House trying to stop it from doing so, according to two current senior US officials and one former senior administration official.
First spotted by the US on 28 January, it was eventually shot down on 4 February off the coast of South Carolina.
The spy balloon incident saw simmering tensions between the US and China boil over with Beijing claiming the balloon was an unmanned civilian airship that accidentally strayed off course, and that Washington overreacted by shooting it down.
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