White House says it’s ‘carefully studying’ China’s balloon program | USA TODAY

John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson for the White House, says China's balloons have crossed over dozens of countries.

RELATED: Canadian, US officials investigating unmanned aircraft shot down over northern Canada | USA TODAY

Sunday night marked the first time in history that U.S. warplanes have shot down aircraft over or near the United States, according to Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.

The extraordinary move was taken after the object shot down on Sunday was first detected by radar late Saturday afternoon about 70 miles north of the U.S. border in Canada, he said.

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18 comments

  1. أنا مسيحي أعيش الاضطهاد في المغرب ولا يوجد حرية وديموقراطية في المغرب واتمنى أحصل على اللجوء في امريكا

  2. In a film, it was “don’t look up” to distract the pleb from the real issues. Here in USA lululand it’s “lookup” so you don’t look in the other direction 🤣🤣🤣

  3. If china have a balloon malfunction they should have contacted us authorities ist and told us about the malfunction but they didn’t do that lol guilty

  4. What’s going on for real? Just tell us Admiral. We want to pack the 7–11s and Kroger for all the bread, milk, cigs, and mintues cards lol

  5. Wow! Advanced extraterrestrial are using high attitude balloons for travel!😮 Air to air missile used to shoot down balloon cost $480K @ 500 feet to balloon!😂

  6. Breaking news from Alaska.
    Upon shooting down the balloon over Canada’s Yukon.
    Once the missile was fired the pilot saw on the balloon, and before it blew up,
    “Happy 63rd Birthday Uncle Bob”

  7. The strongest military on the planet and you got invaded by balloons. Back in the day this wouldnt even have happened. What happened to you guys?

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