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- The US has said a Chinese intelligence-gathering balloon is currently floating over the US.
- China has said that it is a weather balloon that has gone off-course.
- It wouldn't be the first time that a spy balloon has been described as a weather balloon.
The Chinese "weather balloon" that Beijing claims was "blown off course" over one of the United States' most important intercontinental ballistic missile sites isn't the first time what would seem to be a secret spy mission went off script.