The Latest Breaking News on Chinese balloon ‘did not collect any information’, Pentagon says

Star gazing is nothing unusual in Montana, where skies go on forever. But as Chase Doak left work on a Wednesday and looked up on a cold winter day he saw a mysterious round white object that was clearly neither the moon or a star.

President Joe Biden said the U.S. will “take care of” an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the country and prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone an official trip to China.

The United States on Saturday downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest flashpoint in tensions between Washington and Beijing. An operation was underway in US territorial waters to recover debris from the balloon, which…

The balloon had the ability to collect communication signals, per a State Department spokesperson.

Fotage shows the balloon falling to the sea

Reporters asked the president if the balloon - which China denies was for surveillance - would be shot down, after it was spotted by civilians in Billings, Montana, earlier this week

China argued that neither side had formally announced any plan for Blinken to visit Beijing.

A U.S. military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, a week after it first entered U.S. airspace and triggered a dramatic -- and public -- spying saga that worsened Sino-U.S. relations.

The U.S. military shot down what U.S. officials called a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2023. Officials said that the U.S. Navy planned to recover the debris, which is in shallow water.

US officials say balloon was brought down on president Joe Biden’s authorisation

Beijing says it will ‘not accept any groundless conjecture’ after balloons spotted over US and Latin America