A U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot looks down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon on Feb. 3 as it hovers over the Central Continental United States. Photo: U.S. Department of Defense via Getty Images The suspected Chinese spy balloon that traversed the U.S. before a fighter jet shot it down over the Atlantic in February didn’t collect any intelligence information, a Pentagon official said Thursday.

Driving the news: "We were aware that it had intelligence collection capabilities, but … it has been our assessment now that it did not collect while it was transiting the United States or over […]

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