New images released by the FBI on Thursday showed federal agents examining remnants of China’s spy balloon — as the US continued efforts to assess how extensive the device’s surveillance capabilities were.
Members of the FBI’s evidence response team were on hand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to oversee the ongoing operation to retrieve pieces of the obliterated Chinese spy craft.
In one image released by the feds, agents could be seen watching over as evidence was hauled onto a Department of Defense vessel off the coast.
Another showed the recovered evidence being processed after being taken to the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Va. for further analysis.
Senior bureau officials said Thursday only very limited physical evidence had been recovered so far after the balloon was shot down by a US fighter jet last Saturday.