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China's foreign ministry described the balloon as "a civilian airship" for meteorological research that had blown far off course by winds. The Pentagon suspects it's collecting sensitive information.

The Pentagon said a second Chinese spy balloon has been spotted floating above Central America.

China's foreign ministry described the balloon as "a civilian airship" for meteorological research that had blown far off course by winds. The Pentagon suspects it's collecting sensitive information. On Friday, it was spotted flying over Kansas and Missouri.

The US is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States, defense officials said on Thursday, a discovery that risks adding further strain to tense US-China

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The hysteria over the balloon points to the increasingly strident war propaganda emanating from Washington against China, as well as the potential for such a minor incident to be inflated to trigger a military conflict.

U.S. had no immediate response to the Chinese explanation

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U.S. state department - Despite China’s insistence it is designed for meteorological research, the United States Defense Department said Friday a hi

The Department of Defense acknowledged a second Chinese surveillance craft transiting airspace somewhere over Latin America late Friday.