{"id":1835742,"date":"2023-02-05T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835742"},"modified":"2023-02-05T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:06:05","slug":"south-american-nation-detects-another-possible-chinese-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-american-nation-detects-another-possible-chinese-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"South American Nation Detects Another Possible Chinese Spy Balloon"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsouth-american-nation-detects-another-possible-chinese-spy-balloon%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=1835742&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>Late Saturday night, a South American nation disclosed that it had discovered a Chinese spy satellite operating in its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Colombian Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fac.mil.co\/es\/comunicados\/comunicado-0032023\"><\/a> In a statement, Friday morning \u201cthe National Air Defense System detected an object above 55,000 feet, which entered Colombian airspace in the northern sector of the country, moving at an average speed of 25 knots, identifying in it, characteristics similar to those of a balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the Defense Systems, the Colombian Air Force followed the object until it left the airspace,\u201d The statement went on.<\/p>\n<p>Colombians claimed that they would launch an investigation to find the origin of the object but that they didn&#8217;t believe it was a threat to their security.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia&#8217;s news comes just days after the Pentagon announced Friday that it had deemed the balloon a Chinese spy ball.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For more than half an hour, I floated in the Cartagena skyline. Slowly. Chinese balloon? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GzQFcIDZuL\">pic.twitter.com\/GzQFcIDZuL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luz Marina Alvare (@alvarelm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarelm\/status\/1621501802658111490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said. \u201cWe now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was possibly the same one that was found in the Colombian skies. It was captured floating above Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>Esteban Carranza, Costa Rican lawyer, posted a video showing the balloon. He also wrote, \u201cthe same type of balloon spotted in the US was visible all day in the Costa Rican sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say, I was pretty excited as I initially thought I was seeing a UFO because the object was big, bright and absolutely still,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/suspected-chinese-balloon-over-us-02-04-23\/h_043789c943b3f4b3dae70b2c0736e6f3\">Telled<\/a> CNN. \u201cI looked at the object for around 45 minutes from different locations, completely still, and a few hours later went back out again and it was still there, in the exact same place. Lots of people were looking at it from different parts of the city. Even though not a UFO, it was still very unusual and therefore an exciting experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a video that I shot on the street. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilvaRecord?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SilvaRecord<\/a> <br \/>Initial, I didn&#8217;t believe it was a balloon because the wind was about 45 knots and that the object stayed still for a very long time. It was confirmed as a balloon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I60KGTkWjC\">pic.twitter.com\/I60KGTkWjC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UAP Costa Rica (@UAP_CR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAP_CR\/status\/1621341535898931200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military used an F-22 Raptor against a Chinese spy plane off the coast South Carolina. They fired a single A9X sidewinder ballistic missile at 58,000 feet. After the spy balloon flew thousands of miles above the continental United States in the past few days, President Joe Biden authorized it to be shot down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South American nation revealed late on Saturday that it detected a possible Chinese spy balloon operating in its airspace last week. The Colombian Air Force said in a statement that on Friday morning, \u201cthe National Air Defense System detected an object above 55,000 feet, which entered Colombian airspace in the northern sector of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1086120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4123,17453,4117,10000,11156,3960,6893],"class_list":["post-1835742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-american","tag-balloon","tag-chinese","tag-detects","tag-nation","tag-south","tag-spy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}