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The high-altitude balloon flying over the western U.S. is the property of an amateur balloonist, a U.S. official told NBC News Saturday. Prior to Saturday, the U.S. military said it was monitoring an unidentified “small” balloon flying at high altitudes over the west, according to two U.S. officials and a defense official. A fighter aircraft was sent […]
DEADHORSE, Alaska — The United States has called off the search for two of the unidentified flying objects that the military shot out of the sky this month, raising the possibility that the devices will never be collected and analyzed, a U.S. official said Friday. The floating craft above North America have become a source […]
10 minutes ago Image caption, The FBI is examining wreckage from the first balloon shot down The White House has said there is no indication three flying objects blasted out of the sky over the weekend by the US military are linked to alleged Chinese spying. The objects may be “tied to commercial or research […]
US General Mark Milley says that difficult terrain has hampered efforts to recover debris from the latest three downed objects. The United States has shot down four flying objects since a Chinese balloon was first sighted over the US in early February, causing heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington and sparking rumours about the origins […]
2:48 p.m. ET, February 13, 2023 Chinese spy balloon was part of larger intelligence-gathering program, White House says A jet flies by a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it floats off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina on February 4, 2023. (Randall Hill/Reuters) National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said the […]
An as-yet unidentified object was shot down over Michigan’s Lake Huron Sunday afternoon, the third over three consecutive days. A US jet shot down a flying object over Canada Saturday, and on Friday a US fighter brought down another over Alaska . . .
A U.S. fighter jet shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Canada on Saturday on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s orders, Canadian and U.S. officials confirmed. After U.S. and Canadian military aircraft were sent aloft, a U.S. F-22 successfully shot down the object over the Yukon, Trudeau said Saturday afternoon in a tweet. The […]
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified cylindrical object over Canada on Saturday, the second such instance in as many days, as North America appeared on edge following a week-long Chinese spying balloon saga that drew the global spotlight. Separately, the U.S. military also scrambled fighter jets in […]
WASHINGTON — An American fighter jet, acting on the orders of President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, shot down another unidentified flying object on Saturday, Canadian and American officials said, in the latest installment of the drama playing out in the skies of North America. “I ordered the take down of an […]
(CNN) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that an “unidentified object” had been shot down over Canadian airspace on his orders. “I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired […]