(Bloomberg) — An alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed the US had western-made components with English-language writing on them, members of Congress were told on Capitol Hill Thursday, people familiar with the matter said.
Biden administration officials briefed lawmakers about the writing behind closed doors, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. The officials included representatives from the State and Defense Departments as well as the intelligence community.
The presence of the components was described by several of the people, who declined to elaborate further on exactly which ones were Western-made. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the writing was discovered before the balloon was shot down Saturday or found in the wreckage afterward. Recovery operations for the balloon’s payload continued off the coast of South Carolina.
A spokesperson for the National Security Council declined to comment. The State and Defense Departments didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. MORE
Parts is parts…
Happens all the time. It’s because their shit doesn’t work. Even though they stole the designs from us. They’re stupid.
I already made bet, to myself, of such a discovery.
And I wouldn’t be surprised that it had yet more American ‘secret documents’ on board, which would require that it be destroyed over deep waters.
Most of which are available online and can be shipped anywhere. When you find classified tech in the wreckage, THEN you have a story.
as Big Daddy noted so memorably:
“Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?”
If there were any spelling errors in their text, it was probably made in China…and purchased in WAL-MART!
Components?
Hmmm. I wonder if that means resistors and chips or the whole damned thing hanging by the ropes.
Jethro
Probably all of the above. I’ve never seen any ChiCom Composites. My bet is the structure was aluminum. They still can’t smelt aluminum with out major porosity and inclusions. I’m shocked their fighters don’t self destruct on a hard turn. Most likely electronics though. McMaster Carr. .
Hmmmm … curiouser and curiouser …
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“Made by Burisma, Inc”.
Oh, so now it “alleged Chinese spy balloon. Which part is “alleged”…the “spy” part, or the “Chinese” part?
Wanna bet a shit of of stuff from Markham Ontario.
Dig around, you’ll figure out why i say that.
So it takes USA parts to make their stuff run right?
Ok… I’m going to stick my neck out… I’m going to guess a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, and some kind of Linux OS variant running on it…
KR
All sorts of like-new parts are available cheap at the former Bagram Air Base.