The United States has discovered another Chinese spy balloon flying over Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday.
“We see information about a balloon flying over Latin America. We now assume it’s another Chinese surveillance balloon, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said in a press release.
The Costa Rican newspaper La Nación had just published an article about a white flying object that looked like a hot air balloon and was seen over the Latin American country.
At the request of CNN, a senior Pentagon official said the balloon sighted over Latin America does not appear to be headed for the United States.
The Pentagon announced Thursday that it was tracking the movements of a Chinese “spy balloon” flying over the state of Montana (northeast of the United States). represents one of three nuclear missile silo fields on US soil.
The other two nuclear silo fields are located in two states bordering Montana: North Dakota to the east and Wyoming to the south.
As the Pentagon said Friday, the balloon is heading east and has now been moving in the center of the country at about 60,000 feet from the surface for the past few hours.
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As the balloon makes its way across the North American country, the Pentagon leadership strongly advised President Joe Biden to do so. For safety reasons, do not take any action against the device, as dirt may fall on the population.
The presence of this Chinese “spy balloon” in US airspace triggered a diplomatic crisis between Washington and Beijing and justified the suspension of Chancellor Antony Blinken’s planned trip to the Asian country.
Beijing, for its part, admitted on Friday that it owns the globe, though it assured that “it is a civilian airship used for research purposes, mainly for meteorological purposes”. (EFE)
Source: La Neta Neta
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