by Ben Whitehead, Daily Wire:

The Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States earlier this year gathered intelligence from multiple sensitive American military sites, according to a new report from NBC News.

The report, which cites two current American officials and one former administration official, says the balloon was controlled by China, who maneuvered it to make several passes over certain military sites, sometimes in a figure-eight pattern – all while transmitting the gathered data back to Beijing in “real time.” The three officials say the data obtained by China was primarily electronic signals that could be collected from weapons systems or base communications.