- Footage from Chinese Communist Party-controlled state media has resurfaced that shows the testing of a balloon carrying three hypersonic missiles in 2018.
- China’s CCP-run media aired the footage of the high-altitude balloon dropping the missiles onto targets on the ground.
- The clip has been raising concerns on social media as the aircraft is not dissimilar to the Chinese spy balloon that just traversed, unchallenged, across the United States last week.
- In September 2018, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on the weapons test.