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‘Chinese spy balloon’ shot over Alaska last week may have belonged to US amateur ballooning group
A “Chinese spy balloon” shot over Alaska last week may have belonged to a US amateur ballooning group, it has emerged.
Joe Biden may have ordered the US Air Force to shoot down a hobbyist group’s radio ‘pico balloon’ by mistake, it has emerged.
It comes less than a week after the Chinese spy balloon was shot down[/caption]
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade say their 32-inch balloons went “missing in action” on February 11.
A group member said they’re ‘not angry at all’ and would rather lose a $100 balloon than ‘have something bad go over’ the country.
“We acted out of an abundance of caution,” Biden explained.
A US fighter jet shot down the unidentified object flying 40,000ft over Alaska after Pentagon officials said it “posed a reasonable threat.
Authorities were on alert and had been tracking the object, which officials had been tracking for more than 24 hours.
An F-22 aircraft shot it down with a Sidewinder missile after it entered Alaskan airspace, with its remains scattering across the frozen sea.
Balloon expert explains the challenges of shooting down China’s suspected spy balloon
Earlier this month, a suspected Chinese spy balloon drifted over much of the continental United States before an F-22 military fighter jet shot it down off the east coast. The event has put a massive strain on the already fragile U.S.-China relations, with China maintaining that the errant balloon was simply collecting weather data. Shooting […]
Balloon expert explains the challenges of shooting down China’s suspected spy balloon by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
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“We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now,” said White House spokesman John Kirby. He also said U.S. officials did not yet know which nation or group was responsible for it.
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