After the Chinese surveillance balloon and other flying objects were shot down by the US Air Force, other suspicious events in the skies over the US have now become known. In late January, a Japanese telescope caught mysterious green laser beams over Mount Maunakea, Hawaii. In the photo, the parallel beams appear to scan the surface in rapid succession. After a few moments, the ghost is over.
If the National Astronomical Observative of Japan (NAOJ) researchers initially assumed a NASA satellite as the origin of the rays in a tweet, this version was corrected about a week later. Now a Chinese satellite is suspected – a so-called Daqi-1/AEMS satellite. Like its counterpart at NASA, called ICESat-2, this serves to examine the Earth’s atmosphere – for example, for carbon dioxide levels.
China uses satellites to analyze Earth’s atmosphere
The Chinese satellite, launched in April 2022, is just one of many other such flying objects in space that Beijing plans to put into orbit. The Chinese space agency has announced this in any case in 2021. The satellites will be used “to monitor air pollution, collect data for environmental authorities and support global climate change research,” it said at the time.
Since the Chinese surveillance balloon incident, which was shot down over the US state of South Carolina, the US Air Force has repeatedly launched missions in recent days to take down more flying objects. A rocket was recently shot down over Lake Huron in Michigan. The US presidential office said the recently crashed objects “didn’t look much like the Chinese balloon”.
“Illegal balloons”: Beijing blames Washington
Still, the tone between China and the USA. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin threw out the USA on Monday of illegally flying high-altitude balloons over China more than 10 times in the past year. The USA must stop blaming others and seek confrontation, he said. It is quite common for American balloons to fly at high altitudes over other countries. “It is quite clear which country is the leading espionage empire in the world,” the spokesman said, referring to the USA.
Source: Krone
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