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over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity hav ....
Once the balloon was detected, the u.s. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information. gillian: the u.s. military scrambled f-22 fighter jets yesterday and closed the billings montana airport ordering a ground stoppage yesterday while the president was briefed by the national security team in the event that president biden opted to order the military to shoot down the chinese spy balloon. among those who briefed the president were generals glen van hurricane, the head of northern cam manned norad. he and the other chiefs recommended not shooting counsel the balloon because of the danger posed on the ground from falling debris and the assessment that the surveillance balloon does not provide the chinese government from more intelligence than it can glean from existing low orbit satellites. president biden was asked about the balloon at the white house today but ignored the question. a senior defense official gillian said this is not the first ....