{"id":1835236,"date":"2023-02-04T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835236"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:04:45","slug":"u-s-military-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-after-biden-let-it-travel-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-after-biden-let-it-travel-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon After Biden Let It Travel Across Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-military-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-after-biden-let-it-travel-across-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After President Joe Biden refused, the U.S. military shot it down from the air. The Chinese spy balloon had traveled thousands of miles through the country.<\/p>\n<p>After the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which announced that it had closed several North and South Carolina airports as part of a U.S. military operation, the military took down the spy satellite.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: The moment that the Chinese spy balloon was shot out of orbit ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/t.co\/DhjcjVPA9f&#8221;>pic.twitter.com\/DhjcjVPA9f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BNO News Live (@BNODesk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNODesk\/status\/1621958202924437504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brig. Brig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that balloon has violated US airspace and international law \u2014 which is unacceptable. And we\u2019ve conveyed this directly to the PRC on multiple levels,\u201d He told reporters Friday. \u201cThe fact is, we know that it\u2019s a surveillance balloon, and I\u2019m not going to be able to be more specific than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the balloon was an ad. \u201ccivilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement stated that the balloon would explode. \u201cdeviated far from its planned course.\u201d Distance from China to Montana: Approximately 5,000 miles<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/china-spy-balloon-pentagon.html\">Submitted<\/a> The New York Times that the spy balloon traveled from China to Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands then to Canada before ending up over Montana.<\/p>\n<p>CNN was told by an official that the spy ballon had been overflying. \u201ca number of sensitive sites\u201d It was found in the U.S., but it claimed it didn&#8217;t pose a serious threat to intelligence gathering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly they\u2019re trying to fly this \u2014 this balloon over sensitive sites \u2026 to collect information,\u201d Official from the United States\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/02\/03\/what-is-chinese-spy-balloon-montana\/\"><\/a>\u00a0Thursday<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story. Refresh the page to see updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military shot down the Chinese spy balloon on Saturday that traveled thousands of miles across the country after President Joe Biden refused to shoot it down over land. U.S. officials have launched a recovery effort to collect the debris from the downed spy balloon in U.S. waters in the Atlantic Ocean. 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