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these are some of the questions that remain unanswered. china also isn t saying who the balloon belongs to. they re saying it isn t military, but they re not saying who launched it, why it was launched, why there were sightings in canada, in latin america. so, we re lacking for details here. i spoke earlier today with retired pla senior officer, who claims this is not a military assets. he claims that china doesn t need to send big balloons up into the air to gather the intelligence. said, quote, this has nothing to do with military reconnaissance or surveillance. he continued, this is an accident. we have expressed our regrets over this. he says, i cannot see any reason why the u.s. government should not believe it, except to make, you know, a political use of it. he said this should be over.