You hold off decades for the military to start downing unidentified flight objects ( UFOs ) then suddenly they ’re dropping out of the sky like month - old natal day balloon .

The US has downed a fourth flying objective this week , taking care tonot prescript out the possibility of aliensbefore take a more sensible plan of attack anddenying it was noncitizen . With all the disruption and speculation ( could it be undercover agent balloons ? ) you may have miss that the objects are not just hovering above the US and Canada . The government of China – who have been blamed for the possible surveillance tools , reasonably definitively for the first object , which they say was a weather balloon – claims that they have been dealing with their own UFO .

According to Chinese country - consort news outletGlobal Times , office in East China ’s Shandong Province have reported an unnamed aim near the coastal city of Rizhao . The outlet claim that the authorities were preparing to pip it out of the sky on Sunday , warn sportfishing vas in the orbit to stay safe .

It is of course of instruction potential ( perhaps likely ) that this is a minor deflexion by China after four object – speculated to be Chinese spy balloons – were found over the US . Or it could be some other unobjectionable atmospheric condition balloon , or it could be that China , like the US , has concenter a little more aid on modest objects caught on radar than usual succeed the find of the first balloon in the US .

China is not the only state that apply balloon for surveillance purposes . China has been spottedflying military balloon over Taiwanover the last few years , but the US also has its own balloon projects and wasreported in May 2022to be creating inflatables that could fly between 18.2 and 27.4 kilometer ( 60,000 and 90,000 foot ) . allot to the International Security Program and Missile Defense Project director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , these balloon could evendeliver several payloads .

Balloons , though primitive compared to satellites , are advantageous in that you could launch them silently , director of the RAF Centre for Air and Space Power Studies Dr David Jordantold The Guardian . satellite are also tail by whoever you are attempt to spy on , stand for that you may do any activeness you care outside of times you know it will be overhead , or even dazzle them with lasers .

There are , of class , obvious disadvantages too .

" They go where the lead take them , ” Jordantold The Guardian . “ I ’m surprised the Chinese would resort to it … Why not just send a guy in a campervan to drive around ? ”