Financial Times did make the report, so did many other news outlet -- all on Oct 27, 2021 online (Financial Times reported it first, followed by others -- all on the same day, Oct 27). However, they ALL based their reporting on
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and army general Mark Milley's interview with Bloomberg Television's "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations" (the interview was recorded Oct 20 at the National Archives in Washington and released on Bloomberg Television on Oct 28). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/v ... l-mark-milley-video
, for which there is no transcript, either by Bloomberg or in Joint Chiefs of Staff's website (www.jcs.mil).
(ii) David Rubenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubenstein
(1949- (age 72); co-founded Carlyle Group in 1987; "According to Forbes, Rubenstein has a net worth of US$4.3 billion as of October 2021")
(iii) What Milley was saying in the interview was: "What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system. And it is very concerning. I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. It has all of our attention." No details of Chinese test, which would come out. See next.
China has repeatedly stated its policy on nuclear weapons: "No first use." When Hyten said, "They look like a first-use weapon," he meant hypersonic weapons, which are "they."
(ii) Transcript of Hyten's interview does not appeal in CBS or www.jcs.mil.