I sort of think it was blown up, as it were, into perhaps a bigger story than it merited. So they’ve been around for a long time now. So what does that mean? We know the Trump administration did have at least three balloons come over. And I can’t prove it to you, but I think it’s super interesting that when they sort of looked at more than 500 UFO sightings over the last few decades, many of which are very recent ones, more than 160 of them were balloons or balloon-like objects.

There has been more of an effort by Congress and the Biden administration to identify these UFOs. Basically, it’s the UFO office of the Pentagon. But in the piece, I also connected to this little-known office in the Pentagon called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The fact they stole more than 20 million records of personal information from the Office of Personnel Management also speaks for itself. The reports of them stealing the F-35 blueprints and building their own aircraft kind of speak for themselves. Why is that?Īnswer: Obviously, the Chinese have done much worse. Question: You wrote an article on CNN essentially saying the Chinese spy balloon wasn’t deserving, perhaps, of the hysteria that took place. government - threaten to further damage that relationship.ĪSU News spoke to Bergen, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and the co-director of the Center on the Future of War, about this timely topic.Įditor's note: The following interview has been edited for lengthy and clarity. and China, and how China’s surveillance efforts - including stealing design data of the F-35 fighter aircraft and appropriating personal information of more than 20 million Americans who were current or former members of the U.S. government made headlines for days, thanks in no small part to the political maelstrom it created.įrom the perspective of Peter Bergen, however, the incident spoke to a larger story: the relationship between the U.S. The discovery of the Chinese spy balloon over Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana and the subsequent shooting down of the balloon by the U.S. FebruASU's Peter Bergen says China is much more formidable foe than Russia

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