China's Spy Balloon

China's Spy Balloon Was 200 ft Tall, Carried Payload the Size of a Jet

The Chinese high-altitude balloon shot down over the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend was 200 feet tall and carried a payload (everything it was carrying) the size of a regional airliner, a U.S. Air Force general said.

The balloon's superstructure and hardware weighed "in excess of a couple thousand pounds," said Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.

China has stuck to its line that the balloon was a civilian airship collecting meteorological data, but VanHerck said NORAD was confident from the start about the craft's surveillance purposes.

Of course, the United States waited until it got into the ocean before it was shot down with the "payload" sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.

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