MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — Two years to the day after Air Force fighter pilots downed a Chinese surveillance balloon off the Myrtle Beach coast, House Republicans are demanding a full account of what was learned in the investigation that followed.

“My constituents and the American people are still waiting on any kind of explanation was to what information the balloon was able to obtain,” U.S. Rep. Russell Fry, R-7th District, said in a Tuesday news release.

Fry on Tuesday reintroduced his Chinese Spy Balloon Assessment Act, which would require the Defense Department to submit a report on the craft’s intelligence collection capabilities and its impact on U.S. security.

The high-altitude balloon flew across North America from Jan. 28, 2023 until it was shot down a week later in Fry’s district. He originally submitted the act in December 2023.

China insisted the balloon was a civilian airship used mostly for meteorological research that veered off course because of its limited “self-steering” capabilities. Top American officials including U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, weren’t buying it.

Mark A. Milley, then chairman of the U.S. Chiefs of Staff, told CBS News U.S. intelligence investigated the balloon’s remnants and found no evidence of spy equipment.

Officials later collected the balloon’s debris off the ocean floor.

Fry, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is co-sponsoring the measure along the GOP Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Ralph Norman of South Carolina.