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The balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, The Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said.

The balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, The Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said.

A predicted flight path of the balloon according to weather modeling for the five days before it was spotted over Montana suggests it came from mainland China.

Speculation on the topic of a "Chinese spy balloon" allegedly detected over the United States will not contribute to the resolution of the issue until all the details are established, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Friday.

Authorities are tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon which has been spotted flying over sensitive sites in the United States in recent days.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/pentagon-chinese-spy-balloon-spotted-over-western-us/"></div>WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down over concerns of hurting people on the ground, officials said Thursday. The discovery of the balloon puts a further strain on U.S.-China relations [&...

The Department of National Defence says Canada is working with the United States to protect sensitive information from foreign intelligence threats after a high-altitude surveillance balloon was detected.

Chinese spy balloon was seen flying over the Northern United States (US), Pentagon said. An alleged Chinese spy balloon is reportedly seen hovering about the airspace of the Northern US in the past several days, Pentagon officials say.

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A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been flying over the United States for a couple of days but the Pentagon has decided not to shoot it down for fear of harming people on the ground. According to an official of the Pentagon who spoke on condition of anonymity on Thursday, the US took “custody” of the balloon when it entered US airspace and had observed it with piloted US military aircraft, Al Jazeera reports.