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A high-altitude object entered U.S. airspace on February 9 and was shot down over the Beaufort Sea by the U.S. Air Force. The Department of Defense said it was the size of a small car and flying northeast at approximately 40,000 feet (12,000 m), posing a risk to civilian flight.
Spy balloon – live: White House says shot-down objects could be ‘benign’ as GOP rallies against Biden on China Alex Woodward,Graig Graziosi and Maroosha Muzaffar February 14, 2023 at 11:55 PM
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8 interceptor on April 1, 2001.
US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic ocean. Saturday 4 February 2023 19:42, Gustaf Kilander. The US military has shot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina ...
US military shot down an unidentified “object” above Alaskan airspace less than one week after a large airship, allegedly sent by China to spy on the US mainland, seized the national news ...
The balloon was shot down over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, by an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired from a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor that had departed from Langley Air Force Base; the downing occurred at 2:39 p.m. eastern time.
CBS News national security correspondent David Martin described the two unidentified objects shot down over Alaska and Canada as “balloon-like” and did not necessarily believe that they were ...