The military command in charge of U.S. air defenses failed to detect suspected Chinese surveillance balloons before the recent intrusion and learned about them later from intelligence agencies, the general overseeing the command said Monday
WASHINGTON—, acknowledging a gap in defenses.
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, contrasted those previous lapses in detecting balloons with the airship the Saturday. He described a surveillance gap and said the U.S. is trying to determine why the earlier flights went undetected.
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