It is reported by Yahoo News and others that the United States government under the Biden administration finally few a proverbial pair. The so-called Chinese “spy” balloon has been blasted out of the sky off the coast of the Carolinas in the Atlantic Ocean.
Recovery efforts are underway such that the military and government can gather more information and data about exactly what the craft was doing if possible, and to determine what comes next.
This is breaking news and the world’s and internet reactions will begin rolling in as things continue to develop. Conservatives like Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted Joe Biden for not telling Americans sooner about the balloon or stopping it from going over U.S. airspace, to begin with.
Perhaps now we can find out what really happened, but we may never know for sure what China is up to.
“The US has shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of the Carolinas. Operation underway to recover debris from the Atlantic. Airports were closed in N & S Carolina. We might find out how much of a ‘research’ balloon it was, vs. a spy balloon…
2/ Interesting: At this moment — 2:58 pm Sat, Feb 4 — YahooNews has the story (see above), and the home pages of NYT, WSJ and WaPo all have stories saying US is ‘considering’ or ‘close to’ shooting the balloon down. There were all over it — then scooped by YahooNews. Hmmm.”
Jim Hanson:
“Glad they shot it down Disgusted they let it traverse the entire US And complete its mission before taking it out”
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