The United States government stressed today thatthe chinese spy balloonthat crossed its territory at the end of last January was unable to collect intelligence data.

Pentagon spokesman General Pat Ryder said at a press conference that, despite the fact that the device had ability to gather intelligence informationhe did not get to do so while crossing the continental United States.

“As we said in its day, we adopt measures to mitigate the possible icollection attempts (of data) by the globe,” he remarked.

In this way, the Department of Defense was reacting to an article published by The Wall Street Journal, which indicates that the Chinese balloon had equipment manufactured in the United States inside that allowed it to take photos and videosbut that he was unable to transmit them.

The newspaper, which quoted officials familiar with the preliminary results of investigations carried out in this regard, he pointed out that several US defense and intelligence agencies have analyzed, together with the FBI, the remains of the device, which was shot down in early February over Atlantic waters after crossing the country.

This analysis has found that the balloon had equipment manufactured in the United States, which you can buy onlinealong with specialized Chinese sensors and other materials to collect photos, videos and other data to transmit to China, the officials said.

According to the sources, those findings support the conclusion that the device was intended to spy, and not monitoring the weather conditions as Beijing said in its day.

Ryder pointed out that the discovery of US-manufactured material inside the globe has not come as a surprise to the Pentagon, since in the past there have been cases of equipment manufactured in the countrysuch as drones, commercially available, that have been used in certain “capacities”.

The Chinese spy balloon was located at the end of January in the eUS airspace and was shot down over Atlantic waters on February 4.

He had been flying over various areas of the country for days, such as the state of Mountain (Northwest), where one of the three existing nuclear missile silo fields in the United States is located.

Beijing said the balloon entered US airspace at mistakenly deviate from its trajectory and claimed that it was used for meteorological purposes, not espionage, which was rejected by Washington.

The discovery of the Chinese spy balloon revived tensions between the US and China, and came to cause the suspension of a trip to Beijing that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, had planned to makewhich finally took place this June.