The information comes from a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) top-secret document leaked on a Discord channel by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira.
Intelligence agencies in the US identified several Chinese spy balloons in the past few years before one was recently detected and shot down over the country,The information comes from a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency top-secret document, one of the hundreds recently leaked on a Discord channel, allegedly by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira.
The balloon — dubbed Killeen-23 in the document — was moving around the state of Montana, where the US’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silos are located. The documents also delve into the details of balloons labelled Bulger-21 and Accord-21, although it is possible that these were the same one.
In the cases of the balloons whose names’ are known — these were Tony Accord, James Bulger, and Donald Killeen.
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