He taiwan army found remains of a weather balloon of possible Chinese origin on one of the islands Matsua small archipelago controlled by Taipei and very close to the southwest coast of the Asian giant.
He Matsu Defense Command reported in a statement that a patrol found the remains of the device this Saturday afternoon on a road near his detachment, according to the official agency CNAs.
The globe bears the inscriptions “Shanghai Chang Wang Meteorological Technology Company” (Shanghai Cahang Wang Meteorological Technology Company) and “GTS12 digital radiosonde” (digital radio sounder GTS12) in simplified Chinese characters, a spelling used in mainland china but not in Taiwan, which uses the traditional characters.
The preliminary investigation concluded that the wreckage most likely belongs to a weather balloon that crashed to earthAlthough the Army will continue to examine the material found and will intensify movement controls around its military bases in the area, the military statement added.
He Matsu Archipelago detachment who made the discovery is in charge of safeguarding the Dongju Island and Xiju Islandsless than ten kilometers from the coast of the Chinese province of Fujian.
Last February the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense He assured that Taipei had not detected any spy balloons from China to date.
The general Huang Wen-chi of the Taiwanese military portfolio then pointed out that the Chinese balloons detected by the island are “meteorological”with incursions “every year”, but that “do not pose a security threat”.
Earlier that same month The United States shot down a Chinese balloon who was supposedly spying on his territory and shortly after shot down three other flying devices in North America whose origin has not yet been specified.
Washington then accused China of developing a military spy program through balloons sent to 40 countries on five continents, which led the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkento cancel a planned trip to Beijing on those dates.
For its part, the Chinese regime assured that the first object shot down was a weather balloon that deviated from its trajectory and denounced that, in turn, at least ten American balloons have flown over China in the last year.
China claims sovereignty over the self-ruled island of Taiwanwhich it considers a rebellious province for whose reunification it has not ruled out the use of force.
The island is also one of the biggest sources of conflict between China and the United States, mainly because Washington is Taiwan’s main arms supplier and its main ally in the event of a war with Beijing.
Poland detects an observation balloon
He Ministry of Defense of Poland indicated this Saturday that it detected an object in the polish airspace who flew from the direction of belarusand that it is probably an observation balloon.
The ministry tweeted that radar contact with the object was lost near rypina city in central Poland 143 kilometers northwest of the capital Warsaw.
A search has been launched in the vicinity of Rypin involving a helicopter, a drone and ground groups from the Territorial Defense Forces, a press officer from the Territorial Defense Forces said. Operational Command of the Armed ForcesCaptain Ewa Zlotnickato the television network TVN24.
The object was seen on Friday at 20:30 local time around Białowieża, near the border of Poland with Belarus. Radar monitoring was carried out, but around 00:30 on Saturday, the object ceased to be visible, Złotnicka said in a telephone interview with the private television station.
The development reported on Saturday follows two other known incursions into Polish airspace since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In November, two Polish men were killed when a missile hit eastern Poland. Western officials said they believed a Ukrainian air defense missile went astray when Ukrainian air forces tried to repel a large-scale attack by Russia.
(With information from EFE and The Associated Press)
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