Taiwan's army recovers Chinese weather balloon debris on Dongyin

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Coastline of Dongyin island in the Matsu Islands
Dongyin island, where Taiwanese troops recovered the balloon debris Datou Jiazu (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Troops on Taiwan's Dongyin island saw an object fall and found balloon wreckage on a shooting range. Markings identified it as a radiosonde made by a Chinese radio factory, and the army called it a weather instrument, amid the U.S.-China spy balloon dispute.

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  1. PressTaiwan finds crashed weather balloon on remote island, says it is likely from China (opens in a new tab)CNBC (Reuters) / 2023-02-17
  2. PressTaiwan News Quick Take (opens in a new tab)Taipei Times / 2023-02-18

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