{"id":1837196,"date":"2023-02-06T14:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837196"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:37:36","slug":"chinas-spy-balloon-had-explosives-to-self-detonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-spy-balloon-had-explosives-to-self-detonate\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Spy Balloon Had Explosives to Self-Detonate"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fchinas-spy-balloon-had-explosives-to-self-detonate%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=1837196&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<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/article_balloon.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The following are the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-us-fighter-jets-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-report\">shooting down<\/a> Pentagon officials discovered that a Chinese spy ballon was possibly carrying explosives.<\/p>\n<p>The following is an extract from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11719221\/Chinese-spy-balloon-carried-EXPLOSIVES-destroy-itself.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Air Force\u00a0Gen. Glen D.\u00a0VanHerck, commander of US\u00a0Northern Command, revealed in a Monday call with reporters that the Balloon, in addition to potentially carrying explosives, was 200 feet tall, weighed thousands of pounds, and its payload was the size of a jetliner.<\/p>\n<p>VanHerck\u2019s comments came following a briefing by\u00a0National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who defended Biden\u2019s decision to wait to shoot down the balloon until the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the president decided they wouldn&#8217;t shoot it down until he could do so safely, and that meant over water, that afforded us a terrific opportunity to gain a better understanding, to study the capabilities of this balloon,&#8221; Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>A missile was fired by an F-22 fighter aircraft to bring down the balloon off the coast South Carolina&#8217;s coast on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop shortly before the balloon was brought down. It had done so for three airports in Carolina: Myrtle Beach (South Carolina), Charleston (South Carolina), and Wilmington, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/chinese-spy-balloon-spotted-hanging-over-montana-pentagon\">balloon<\/a>\u00a0The aircraft had entered US airspace January 28th and was known to Biden&#8217;s administration for almost a week before it was reported in the news on Thursday February 2. The White House reportedly tried to keep its presence secret to not disrupt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/us-department-of-state-celebrates-international-pronoun-day\">Secretary State<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/blinken-says-russia-would-have-to-commit-to-no-new-invasions-in-order-for-sanctions-to-be-eased\">Antony Blinken<\/a>\u00a0Scheduled trip to China was delayed after discovery of the balloon by the public.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story that will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are the shooting down Pentagon officials discovered that a Chinese spy ballon was possibly carrying explosives. The following is an extract from the Daily Mail, Air Force\u00a0Gen. Glen D.\u00a0VanHerck, commander of US\u00a0Northern Command, revealed in a Monday call with reporters that the Balloon, in addition to potentially carrying explosives, was 200 feet tall, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1837199,"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":[547],"tags":[17453,5909,17819,17825,6893],"class_list":["post-1837196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-balloon","tag-chinas","tag-explosives","tag-self-detonate","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\/1837196","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}