How Questions Over a Spy Balloon and U.F.O.s Fed a Crisis Between the U.S. and China - The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/us/politics/balloon-ufo-us-china.html
U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines. Washington’s evolving view reflects U.S. and Chinese difficulties in discerning each other’s intentions.