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For days, US government officials have been tracking the Chinese spy balloon as it travels across the country.

The US military scrambled two Air Force F-22 Raptors from Nellis Air Force Base to intercept the Chinese spy balloon that poses

Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over the US, Pentagon says

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. was tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over American airspace , and China said Friday that it would look into those reports, as the discovery further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/china-says-its-looking-into-report-of-spy-balloon-over-us/"></div>WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic trip to China as the Biden administration weighs a broader response to the discovery of a high-altitude Chinese balloon flying over sensitive sites in the western United States, a U.S. official said Friday. The abrupt decis...

The U.S. says it is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days. The Pentagon decided not to shoot it down over concerns of hurting people on the ground. A senior defense official says the U.S. has “very high confidence” it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon, and says it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation’s three nuc...

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 because it could hurt people on the ground, officials said Thursday. The discovery of the balloon puts a further strain on U.S.-China relations at a time…

Military leaders advise Biden against shooting balloon out of fear of debris that could pose safety threat.

The Canadian armed forces are actively tracking the movements of Chinas high-altitude surveillance balloon spotted over the United States in case a new spying object is discovered, the Canadian Department of National Defense said.The US Defense Department detected a high altitude surveillance ballo ..

China Dailys article read that "those fabricating the balloon lie are clearly attempting to portray China" in ways that "lack support."