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The U.S. has downed a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of the ... (NPR)

The downing came shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration said it had "paused departures from and arrivals to" three East Coast airports "to support ...

"The China balloon flying over the U.S. The U.S. "This was a dereliction of Biden's duty, and let's hope the American people don't pay a price." Austin praised Biden's decision to shoot down the balloon. "Your rifle rounds WILL NOT reach it. "Biden's refusal to stop it is a dereliction of duty. — "to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort." From flying balloons to open borders, Biden has no regard for our national security and sovereignty." The Pentagon shared reports on Friday of a second balloon, belonging to China, that officials earlier this week decided against shooting down the balloon after the Biden administration said it did not pose a national security threat. officials "said to me, 'Let's wait 'til the safest place to do it,' " he said. Speaking on Saturday, President Biden told reporters he gave the order on Wednesday.

F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina ... (Department of Defense)

A U.S. Air Force fighter safely shot down a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said in a written ...

The balloon at the time was between 60,000 and 65,000 feet. The senior defense official said the recovery of the balloon will enable U.S. While Chinese officials admitted that the balloon was theirs, they said it was a runaway weather balloon. The mission now transitions to one of recovery. The official said Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration. "Military commanders determined that there was undue risk of debris causing harm to civilians while the balloon was overland." The balloon traversed Alaska, Canada and re-entered U.S. officials took steps to protect against the balloon's collection of sensitive information, mitigating its intelligence value to the Chinese. "President Biden asked the military to present options and on Wednesday President Biden gave his authorization to take down the Chinese surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to us civilians under the balloon's path," said a senior defense official speaking on background. "Today's deliberate and lawful action demonstrates that President Biden and his national security team will always put the safety and security of the American people first while responding effectively to the PRC's unacceptable violation of our sovereignty," Austin said referring to the Peoples Republic of China. officials first detected the balloon and its payload on January 28 when it entered U.S. "We thank Canada for its contribution to tracking and analysis of the balloon through [North American Aerospace Defense Command] as it transited North America," Austin said.

Downing of Chinese Spy Balloon Ends Chapter in a Diplomatic Crisis (The New York Times)

The balloon, spotted earlier this week over the western United States, was brought down when an F-22 fighter jet fired an air-to-air missile at it off the ...

Pentagon officials were able to gauge its projected path and made plans to shoot it down once it reached the Atlantic. By that day, the balloon was over Kansas and heading, helped in part by the jet stream, to the Eastern Seaboard. Austin III, in the Philippines at the time, called a meeting on Wednesday of senior military and defense officials to review military options, per Mr. Blinken’s trip to China was scheduled to begin in days, and the administration had decisions to make. Nicholas Burns, also told the Chinese Foreign Ministry that its government had to remove the balloon, officials said. “We acted to notify the public as quickly as possible as to the facts regarding the balloon,” said Brig. Blinken said the entry of the spy balloon was a officials conveyed to Chinese officials several times in recent days that the U.S. Earlier, a senior defense official said that had happened three times during the Trump administration and one previous time during the Biden administration. officials to their Chinese counterparts, criticism from Republican lawmakers, and on Friday, the cancellation of a visit to China by Secretary of State Antony J. The president was alerted by the Pentagon on Tuesday that a spy balloon had entered continental American airspace near Idaho, White House officials said, and asked for military options. The Chinese foreign ministry declared its “strong discontent and protest” about the United States’ downing of the balloon.

US Downs Chinese Balloon, Prompting Protests from Beijing (Bloomberg)

The US shot down an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, injecting new tension into relations with Beijing which ...

U.S. military downs Chinese balloon over Atlantic Ocean (The Washington Post)

The airship, which Pentagon officials characterized as an attempt by Beijing to collect military intelligence, was shot down off the South Carolina coast.

“After the second jet passed, we saw the missile head toward it and then saw the puff,” she said. The Chinese government reacted apologetically initially, saying it “regrets the unintended entry” of what Beijing insisted was an unmanned weather balloon used for civilian research. “It literally shook my home.” Rushing back out, she could see the white dot of the balloon drifting to Earth. The balloon presence in the mainland United States was disclosed to the public on Thursday after appearing over Montana, where it loitered for a time near Malmstrom Air Force Base, home to several nuclear missile silos. We don’t know what they are tracking, and we don’t know how they’re getting the information back [to the PLA].” It reentered American airspace over northern Idaho on Tuesday, one day before it was spotted over Montana by civilians, prompting a ground stoppage at the airport in Billings. A senior defense official portrayed the delay in downing in the craft as an intelligence coup for the United States. After the operation, some in the GOP continued to question the administration’s handling of the situation. A second official said that Beijing was “freaked” by the incident. The administration’s reluctance to shoot down the balloon before Saturday was criticized by Republican lawmakers, who called it a failure to protect American airspace from a top U.S. [known](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196836/lt-frank-luke-jr/) as “the Arizona Balloon Buster” for destroying German observation balloons and enemy planes. With a single missile fired from an F-22 Raptor, the craft was taken down at 2:39 p.m., shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered ground stops for all flights in and out of Wilmington, N.C., Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Charleston, S.C.

Chinese balloon shot down over Atlantic Ocean by U.S. (Axios)

When asked by a reporter if there were plans to shoot down the balloon, President Biden said, "We're going to take care of it."

- The Federal Aviation Administration issued an airspace closure around 12:45 p.m. territorial waters, per the DOD. - But sending a spy balloon directly over the heads of the American populace has accomplished the opposite, greatly raising the sense of a direct Chinese threat to the American homeland. military sites, has heightened tensions between the two nations. - Biden told reports Saturday after the balloon was downed: "I ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to shoot it down," adding that the Pentagon opted to wait until it was over the water. - The procedure was done in coordination and with the support of the Canadian government, the DOD said.