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WASHINGTON: The United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon Saturday that had spent the past week traversing the country, an explosive end to a drama that put a diplomatic crisis between the world’s two great powers onto television screens in real time.

A senior defense official says they didnt just start now, though. over the course of the last several days the pentagon made an effort to make sure this chinese surveillance balloon couldnt gather as much information as they were looking for although they wouldnt detail exactly what those efforts entailed, instead they tried to flip the script monitoring the balloon constantly and trying to learn what they could about it as it traversed the united states. in terms of what went flue this beforeha...

The balloon, spotted earlier this week over the western United States, was brought down when an F-22 fighter jet fired an air-to-air missile at it off the coast of South Carolina.

UPDATE, FEB. 4 AT 7:34 PM:

Instead, that decision was made out over the water. the pentagon and northern command launched f-22s from langley air force base in virginia as well as support f-15 craft and tankers as well. a single f-22 fired a single sidewinder, a short-range heat-seeking missile that in the dramatic video we saw pierces the balloon, one shot, one kill. breaking down and bringing down the surveillance balloon weve watched as it made its way across the u.s. that is the military side. the diplomatic side as we...

Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. officials say a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China and seen above Montana is

BILLINGS, Mont. - A Chinese intelligence-gathering balloon that was seen floating over the Billings area Wednesday is now being analyzed by FBI experts and intelligence agencies.

The White House on Friday acknowledged that a Chinese surveillance balloon that is currently floating over the United States is violating U.S. sovereignty and international law, “and it is unacceptable this occurred.”

UPDATE, FEB. 3 AT 6:24 PM:

The Chinese balloon, of the size of three buses, laced with a significant number of payloads will probably be over the United States for a few days, the Pentagon said on Friday asserting that it has surveillance capabilities.