{"id":1846736,"date":"2023-02-14T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1846736"},"modified":"2023-02-14T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:39:21","slug":"military-says-significant-debris-retrieved-from-chinas-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-says-significant-debris-retrieved-from-chinas-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Says &#8220;Significant Debris&#8221; Retrieved From China&#8217;s Spy Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fmilitary-says-significant-debris-retrieved-from-chinas-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=1846736&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 class=\"subheading\">The Atlantic Ocean has been able to recover sensors from the first Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over the U.S. \u201csignificant debris,\u201d The U.S. military made the announcement late Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">It was just hours after White House officials had made the announcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/13\/white-house-says-no-evidence-alien-extraterrestrial-activity-shot-down-objects\/\"><\/a> There is \u201cno\u201d Evidence of any \u201calien or extraterrestrial activity\u201d The most recent \u201ctakedowns\u201d of\u00a0unidentified flying objects that followed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese balloon, which Beijing claims was a spy vessel for the Chinese government, spent more than a week crossing U.S. and Canadian territory before President Joe Biden ordered it to be shot down from South Carolina.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to a poll, the majority of likely general election voters believe that the Biden government mishandled or should not have handled the Chinese spy ball that traveled across the United States last Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MTn7Qaa7yP\">https:\/\/t.co\/MTn7Qaa7yP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1623111635010199554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The U.S. military\u2019s northern command said in a statement: \u201cCrews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified as well as large sections of the structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The downing of the balloon on 4 February has been followed by a further three unidentified objects being shot down over North American airspace.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is examining the items which the U.S. says were used to spy on sensitive military sites.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">@RealUSC via Storyful<\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 30-40ft of the balloon\u2019s antenna are among the items found, <a href=\"https:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=Awr.igYnaetju08Fd98M34lQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny\/RV=2\/RE=1676401064\/RO=10\/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cbsnews.com%2flive-updates%2fchinas-spy-balloon-unidentified-objects-shot-down-what-we-know-so-far%2f\/RK=2\/RS=ZP4YZEsxRrojlxJG6Ji9M1TnO6c-\">according to<\/a> CBS.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said the high-altitude balloon originated in China and was used for surveillance, but China maintains it was merely a weather-monitoring airship innocently mapping global wind patterns that had somehow been blown astray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">White House spokesman John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-white-house-holds-briefing-with-nsc-spokesman-john-kirby-after-3-more-objects-shot-down\">said<\/a> all objects so far shot down did not pose \u201cany direct threat to people on the ground\u201d, but were destroyed \u201cto protect our security, our interests and flight safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The balloon shot down over South Carolina was described by officials as the size of three buses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23256403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1247116081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23256403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1247116081-1024x731-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"707\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this U.S. Navy handout, Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Feb. 10, 2023. (Ryan Seelbach\/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The second object, over Alaska, was described by officials as the size of a \u201csmall car\u201d while the third object, over the Yukon, was \u201ccylindrical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fourth object brought down from the skies over Michigan was said to be \u201coctagonal\u201d with strings attached.<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon memo later outlined the flying object shot down over Yukon appeared to be a \u201csmall, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defence officials also wrote in the memo the object shot down in Michigan \u201csubsequently slowly descended\u201d into the water after impact.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Ocean has been able to recover sensors from the first Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over the U.S. \u201csignificant debris,\u201d The U.S. military made the announcement late Monday. It was just hours after White House officials had made the announcement. There is \u201cno\u201d Evidence of any \u201calien or extraterrestrial activity\u201d The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846739,"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":[14809,17453,5909,17644,4505,18624,6893],"class_list":["post-1846736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-significant","tag-balloon","tag-chinas","tag-debris","tag-military","tag-retrieved","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\/1846736","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=1846736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}