{"id":52626,"date":"2023-02-15T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/japan-says-aerial-objects-spotted-in-recent-years-were-likely-chinese-spy-balloons"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:45:56","slug":"chinese-spy-balloon-may-have-been-blown-off-intended-course-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52626","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spy balloon may have been blown off intended course \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US officials who tracked balloon from launch on Hainan island reportedly examining possibility that unusual weather took it over North America<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The US is reportedly examining the possibility that the Chinese spy balloon was pushed off course by strong winds when it entered US airspace, having tracked it since its launch days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four flying objects shot down by the US in recent weeks, only the first has been attributed to Chinese surveillance efforts. The balloon took off from China\u2019s Hainan island, before travelling on a path which appeared to go over Guam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/02\/14\/china-spy-balloon-path-tracking-weather\/\">according to the Washington Post<\/a> on Tuesday. It then took an \u201cunexpected\u201d turn to the north, the report said, citing anonymous US officials. After it entered Canadian airspace, strong winds blew it south over the border, the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/japan-says-aerial-objects-spotted-in-recent-years-were-likely-chinese-spy-balloons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials who tracked balloon from launch on Hainan island reportedly examining possibility that unusual weather took it over North AmericaThe US is reportedly examining the possibility that the Chinese spy balloon was pushed off course by strong wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,667,88,474,45,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-japan","category-surveillance","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626\/revisions\/52627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}