{"id":1857001,"date":"2023-02-22T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1857001"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T21:51:03","slug":"pentagon-releases-new-close-up-photo-of-chinese-spy-balloon-flying-over-u-s-before-it-was-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-releases-new-close-up-photo-of-chinese-spy-balloon-flying-over-u-s-before-it-was-shot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Releases New Close-Up Photo Of Chinese Spy Balloon Flying Over U.S. Before It Was Shot Down"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpentagon-releases-new-close-up-photo-of-chinese-spy-balloon-flying-over-u-s-before-it-was-shot-down%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=1857001&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>The U.S. Military released the selfie that the pilot of U-2 spy plane was taking while he monitored the aircraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/communist-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> A spy balloon was launched earlier this month from South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The spy balloon first flew above U.S. Airspace on January 28th. It was then shot down one week later by President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported first that the photo existed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News: DoD releases a selfie from the cockpit a U-2 spy aircraft. This was taken as an Airman flew high above the Chinese surveillance balloon, which was brought down by the US military earlier in the month. <\/p>\n<p> CNN first reported on the existence of the selfie. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4TBsBnFdk4\">pic.twitter.com\/4TBsBnFdk4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZcohenCNN\/status\/1628497300891791360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The U.S. Department of Defense just released this photo of the Chinese government spy balloon that was taken by the pilot of a U-2 spy plane. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gxXn4RiZTO\">pic.twitter.com\/gxXn4RiZTO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 \u06cc\u0627\u0634\u0627\u0631 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1628503718164566016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Military released a selfie taken by the pilot of a U-2 spy plane that was monitoring the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down earlier this month off the coast of South Carolina. The spy balloon was first detected over U.S. airspace on January 28 and was shot down a week later after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1835227,"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":[17453,4117,9163,6328,3761,5935,6171,4049,6893,7238],"class_list":["post-1857001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-balloon","tag-chinese","tag-close-up","tag-flying","tag-pentagon","tag-photo","tag-releases","tag-shot","tag-spy","tag-u-s"],"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\/1857001","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=1857001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}