New Delhi: Days after the US military shot down a Chinese surveillance craft floating over sensitive installations in the country, media reports suggest that India was one of the countries targeted by the fleet of spy balloons operated by China. The local newspaper had then asked: “Now, the question is which agency has placed the object in the sky and why? If this object is not released by any agencies in Andaman then was it sent for spying? But in this age of ultra-advanced satellites, who would use a flying object to spy?”More than a year later, indications, as per all these reports are that the balloon was Chinese and probably was over Indian airspace violating Indian sovereignty at a time that India and China were (and still are) engaged in a major standoff on the disputed border. It is not known if the government of India was able to identify the object or if it registered a diplomatic protest with the Chinese government