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High altitude selfie, please? US pilot captures China spy balloon at 60,000 feet
The Pentagon launched a selfie picture taken through the pilot of a U2 secret agent aircraft that became monitoring the Chinese secret agent balloon earlier than americaA navy shot it down off the coast of South Carolina in advance this month. The picture indicates the mysterious, silvery-white sphere of the balloon with panels dangling. It additionally famous a hanging sight of the shadow of americaA plane forged in opposition to the balloon.
The photo became taken through the airman at the flight deck on February three because the balloon entered the airspace above the continental US at excessive altitude, CNN reported.
The secret agent balloon became noticed above Montana and tracked through US government because it moved throughout the numerous states after which became shot down over the Atlantic Ocean with a unmarried missile fired from an F-22 Raptor fighter jet that took off from Langley air pressure base in Virginia.
The F-22 Raptor warplane, flying at approximately 60,000 feet, shot it down off the South Carolina coast following which US president Joe Biden stated that the plane had been “collecting records over America,” at the same time as China asserted that it became a climate balloon that went adrift. The wreckage became retrieved and is being analyzed, it became reported.
