BREAKING: The U.S. military downed a Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast Saturday afternoon, the Associated Press reports.
Chinese and U.S. officials are giving conflicting reasons for why the Chinese balloon, pictured, is floating over U.S. airspace.Chinese and U.S. officials are giving conflicting reasons for why the Chinese balloon, pictured, is floating over U.S. airspace.The U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday afternoon, the Pentagon said.
"On Wednesday, President Biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon's path," U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement. Austin said military commanders"had determined downing the balloon while over land posed an undue risk to people across a wide area due to the size and altitude of the balloon and its surveillance payload."
Speaking on Saturday, President Biden told reporters he gave the order on Wednesday. U.S. officials"said to me, 'Let's wait 'til the safest place to do it,'"he said."They successfully took it down, and I want to compliment our aviators who did it," Biden added. The downing came shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration said it had"paused departures from and arrivals to" three East Coast airports — in Wilmington, N.C., Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Charleston, S.C. —"to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort." Flights through these airports
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