Remember that Chinese spy balloon that made news in February as it drifted across the US gathering information for the CCP? We were told at the time not to panic because Joe Biden totally had things under control and the Chinese wouldn’t learn anything. But as we learned a couple months later, the spy balloon was actually a partial success.

China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, the three officials said. The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, the officials said.
However, the balloon became such a big story and such an embarrassment to China that they probably won’t be trying it again anytime soon. And as it turns out, the …