The Chinese military is understood to be on high alert after an unidentified object was spotted flying over its port city of Qingdao. It comes after weeks of speculation about giant balloons – one of which the Pentagon claimed was a Chinese surveillance device – over the US and Canada.
According to the Daily Star, after three objects – apparently balloons – were spotted over North America, accusations also started to fly, heightening international tensions. The US government has already brought down two high-altitude objects, one on Alaska's north-east coast, and another “the size of a small car” near Yukon, Canada. Both have not yet been identified.
A Pentagon official told ABC News that the mystery object was “cylindrical and silverish grey” and gave the “balloon-like” appearance of floating without “any sort of propulsion”.
