The April 2022 report, titled “People’s Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” found a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 – while Donald Trump was president – at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida ”
The Air Force intelligence report is the first indication that the U.S. military was aware of Chinese surveillance balloons well before the latest incident.
Source: Exclusive: US intel assessment documents Chinese spy balloon incident under Trump | CNN Politics
