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China 'regrets' airship that strayed into US

An airship later acknowledged to be a civilian craft belonging to China flies in the sky over Billings, Montana on Feb 1, in a picture obtained from social media. (Photo: Chase Doak via Reuters)

BEIJING: China voiced regret on Friday for an “unintended” breach of US airspace by what it said was an unmanned civilian airship, after the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon.

“The airship is from China,” a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. “It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes.

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