Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware

Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say

It's been months since "spy balloon" fever gripped the United States, but the headline-grabbing flying object – alleged to have been deployed by China – is back in the news. Preliminary findings from the US inspection of its wreckage show a whole bunch of commercially available hardware made in the States.…

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