BREAKING: China has claimed an alleged surveillance balloon spotted above the US is a weather device.
China has claimed an alleged surveillance balloon spotted above the US is a weather device.But according to Beijing, it’s nothing more than a ‘civilian airship’ used to monitor the weather.
China’s foreign affairs ministry said today the ‘airship’ has limited steering capability and ‘deviated far from its planned course’ after being blown off course.The Pentagon said the device travelled from China to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, through northwest Canada over the past few days before arriving over Montana, where it was hovering on Wednesday.
The US took ‘custody’ of the balloon when it veered into US airspace, with piloted US military aircraft keeping watch.that the movements of a high-altitude surveillance balloon were being ‘actively tracked’ by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, part of the US-Canada military partnership. ‘Canadians are safe, and Canada is taking steps to ensure the security of its airspace, including the monitoring of a potential second incident,’ the statement said,
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