Breitbart
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command (NORTHCOM), admitted Monday that the joint U.S.-Canada organization missed previous incursions of Chinese spy balloons, including during the Trump administration.
When asked during a press briefing whether NORTHCOM was involved in tracking previous Chinese spy balloon that flew into the U.S. airspace during the Biden and Trump administrations, VanHerck responded:
So those balloons, so every day as a NORAD commander itâs my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats. And thatâs a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. But I donât want to go in further detail.
He indicated that the intelligence community tracked those previous balloons after the incursions through âadditional means.â
