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The U.S. downed the Chinese surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast on Saturday and will attempt to recover its debris, according to a U.S. official.

The action came a couple of hours after President Joe Biden responded to a reporter who asked whether the U.S. would shoot down the balloon. "We're gonna take care of it," Biden said, in his first public remarks about the balloon.

In remarks to reporters after the balloon was shot down, Biden said he made the order to the Pentagon after he was briefed on Wednesday.

"They decided — without doing damage to anyone on the ground — they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water," he said. "They successfully took it down and I want to compliment our aviators who did it. And we'll have more to report on this a little later."

The balloon was shot down at 2:39 p.m. by an F-22 raptor with a single missile, according to a senior defense official. The balloon was between 60,000 to 65,000 feet in the air when it was downed.

The debris field from the balloon is about seven miles spread out and ships as well as navy divers are expected to help recover the pieces, a senior U.S. military official told NBC News.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the balloon was shot down over the coast of South Carolina in a statement.

"This afternoon, at the direction of President Biden, U.S. fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully brought down the high altitude surveillance balloon launched by and belonging to the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the water off the coast of South Carolina in U.S. airspace," Austin said.

"The balloon, which was being used by the PRC in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States, was brought down above U.S. territorial waters," he said.



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-downed-chinese-spy-balloon-carolina-coast-will-attempt-recover-debr-rcna69165

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

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I've been following this thru the week and glad they just shot the mess down

This growing tension between the US and China is gonna be hell for the "stopasianhate" crew

I almost feel bad for them. Almost

The fact that they're referring to this mess in the media as "the Chinese balloon"

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[Barbie Dangerous]

"the Chinese balloon"

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This "Wuhan Caronavirus" sequel

[Summertime]

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I've been following this thru the week and glad they just shot the mess down

This growing tension between the US and China is gonna be hell for the "stopasianhate" crew

I almost feel bad for them. Almost

The fact that they're referring to this mess in the media as "the Chinese balloon"

Fnfnnfnfnfnnfnfn wat the fuck

I feel like Beijing got whatever data and info they wanted way before it finally got shot down. Twitter is claiming there are more, but who knows if that's true.

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It just a weather balloon