The U-2 pilot photographed the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast.
Chinese spy balloon
took a close-up photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast.It was taken Feb. 3 as the balloon “hovered over the Central Continental United States,” according to the caption provided by the Defense Department.The Pentagon released the image Wednesday, more than two weeks after the balloon made international headlines as it transited the United States.
A U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot looks down at a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovers over the United States earlier this month.The balloon was downed on Feb. 4 by an F-22 fighter jet firing a AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. The strike took place once the balloon was no longer over land but was still within U.S. territorial waters.
The shootdown led to three other smaller objects also being shot down by Air Force jets within a period of eight days: one over Alaska, one over Canada and one over Lake Huron. Searches for the Alaska and Lake Huron objects have ended.
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