Apparatus was knocked down, by order of Joe Biden, when flying over the ocean, and American authorities collect the remains. China denies spying and says the device was for meteorological research. The Chinese balloon flying over the United States was shot down this Saturday (02/04), according to official sources quoted by the American press.
US President Joe Biden ordered the balloon to be shot down when the object was already over the ocean, where its remains fell. Material is being collected.
According to a local photographer’s testimony to CNN, several planes flew over the area and “a missile or similar device” hit him.
The Pentagon announced last Thursday that it was following the movements of a Chinese “spy balloon” that was flying over the state of Montana, in the northeast of the United States, where one of the three silos of nuclear missiles on American soil is located.
Initially, the Pentagon summit had recommended that no action be taken against the device for safety reasons, as debris could fall on the population, but as soon as the device entered the sea, they took the decision to shoot it down.
The discovery of the first of these “spy balloons” in American airspace triggered a diplomatic crisis between Washington and Beijing and led to the suspension of the trip that the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, would make to the Asian country this weekend.
Beijing admitted on Friday that the device flying over the US was Chinese, but said it was a civilian balloon used for research purposes, mainly meteorological.
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