Organization: National Defence
Year: 2024
Month: October
Request Number: A-2022-01900
Request Summary: Records that pertain to a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon detected over North American in 01-2023 and 02-2023, and any similar balloons detected near or above North America from 2015 to 08-02-2023
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 258
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