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A Chinese spy balloon which was flying over the United States for a couple of days.
According to US officials, in what would be a brazen act just days ahead of a planned trip to Beijing by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
but military leaders advised President Joe Biden against shooting the balloon out of the sky for fear debris could pose a safety threat, advice Biden accepted, US officials said.
Fighter jets were mobilized,
US officials said,
and had observed it with piloted US military aircraft, The United States took “custody” of it.
When balloon entered in US airspace
One of the officials told reporters on condition of anonymity,
And on Wednesday, through Canada before appearing over the city of Billings in Montana.
The object flew over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
US officials said,
and that it was monitoring a “potential second incident” without giving further details, adding that it was in frequent contact with the United States with a U.S. official claiming that the balloon was ‘about the size of three buses’.
A “high-altitude surveillance balloon” was detected
Canada’s defense ministry said,
where he called China the “biggest geopolitical challenge” facing the United States.
At an event at Washington’s Georgetown University
At an event at Washington’s Georgetown University
where he called China the “biggest geopolitical challenge” facing the United States.
Tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,”
The United States government has detected and is
The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.”
Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters,