Coverage & sourcesThe Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US in 2023

Collected articles: every report in this story's record, counted once, in the week (Monday to Sunday, UTC) it was published; a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. Copies of the same wire story count as separate articles. This shows how much we collected, not how important a development was or whether it was independently confirmed. It covers this record only, not all news coverage. Our collection begins in October 2021.

Collected articles per week

1851 dated articles from Jan 30, 2023 to the week of June 26, 2023.

Weekly counts, newest first

Collected articles per week
Week ofArticlesReports
June 26, 202341June 2023 in the record
June 19, 20230
June 12, 20230
June 5, 202313
May 29, 20230May 2023 in the record
May 22, 20230
May 15, 20230
May 8, 20230
May 1, 20230
April 24, 20230April 2023 in the record
April 17, 20230
April 10, 20236
April 3, 202327
March 27, 20230March 2023 in the record
March 20, 20230
March 13, 20230
March 6, 20230
February 27, 20230February 2023 in the record
February 20, 202376
February 13, 2023408
February 6, 2023500
January 30, 2023780January 2023 in the record

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