The military has completed its recovery of the Chinese spy balloon that spent a week in US airspace traveling from Alaska to South Carolina earlier this month, according to the Pentagon.
The Navy on Thursday concluded its recovery efforts that began after President Biden ordered the shoot-down on Feb. 4 of the surveillance device that had loitered over sensitive US military sites along its path.200 feet tall with a payload the size of a jetlinerAs pieces of the payload were recovered, the Navy helped transport them to shore, where they were taken into custody by federal investigators and sent to the FBI Lab at Quantico, Va.
The US military has completed its recovery of the Chinese spy balloon, the Pentagon announced Friday.The large balloon was seen above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina.US officials hope to use the debris to learn more about the balloon’s capabilities and purpose, as well as to gain insight into China’s spy balloon program.
It took the Navy 12 days to recover the balloon’s pieces from the ocean floor as weather and rough water affected the operation, which began with the USNS Pathfinder survey shipAt the time, VanHerck estimated the debris field to be roughly 5,000 feet by 5,000 feet or “more than 15 football fields by 15 football fields” — slightly under a square mile.
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