
The chairman and five other Republicans of the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday requested a classified briefing by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Department of Homeland Security on the recent violation of U.S. airspace by a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon that was eventually shot down in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of South Carolina. The congressmen said the balloon “posed a serious threat to the American homeland” as an intelligence platform and are concerned that…