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Kelly McClure

Pentagon tracking "surveillance balloon"

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a scheduled trip to China as the Pentagon continues to investigate what's being called a Chinese "surveillance balloon" that President Biden was briefed on Tuesday.

According to Reuters, military leaders considered shooting the balloon out of the sky shortly after it was spotted but Biden, who feared that shooting it down could cause harmful debris, has chosen not to thus far.

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