The first incident was a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which entered U.S. airspace on Jan. 28 north of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, according to a senior military official.
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"Northern Command has adjusted the parameters of their radar capabilities in a way that they can see more than they could before," this official said. 2:39 p.m. ET: Footage captured the balloon being shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. A senior government said the FBI was expected to take custody of any recovered components of the balloon's payload and to ship those to its laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis and intelligence gathering.The Pentagon's Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder disclosed that China had conducted four balloon surveillance missions over "sensitive sites" within U.S. territory during recent years, but did not disclose exactly where or when the incidents occurred.
The downed balloon "had multiple antennas to include an array likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications. It was equipped with solar panels large enough to produce the requisite power to operate multiple active intelligence collection sensors," a State Department official said. It had not yet been retrieved, the officials said, but would likely be done with a crane or a winch from a vessel.Another object was seen late on Feb. 9, White House spokesman John Kirby later told reporters. He said it was a small object and, according to the Pentagon, it was traveling "northeasterly across Alaska" and two F-35 fighter jets were sent up to identify it.The jets did another flight "early this morning," on Feb.
President Biden, briefed on Feb. 9, gave the order to shoot it down on the morning of Feb. 10. Kirby said the "predominant" reason Biden ordered it shot down was the "safety" of flights traveling at that altitude and the fact that it was at the mercy of prevailing winds made its flight path less predictable. "And the president just wasn't able to take that risk."At the Pentagon, Brig Gen. Ryder said the object was detected by ground radar.
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