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A US fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight days and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over US airspace that Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, based in Colorado Springs as commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, took questions last week at the Pentagon about the suspected Chinese spy balloon that Northern Command shot down off the Carolina coast after…

Air force report details balloon while Pentagon officials say China had sent three over the US during Trump’s time in office

Balloon falls six miles off the coast of Carolina after being shot down by US military

US Air Force document says balloons ‘drifted past Hawaii’ and ‘across Florida’ during Trump presidency

The high-profile spectacle of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the continental U.S. is shining a spotlight on the prevalence of similar incidents around the world, from Taipei to Latin America.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. has started to recover some parts from the Chinese balloon that an American F-22 fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina, as Biden administration officials said the U.S. was still trying to figure out how much senior leaders in Beijing knew about the…

General says the Air Force initially didn't shoot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over Alaska because it was not a military threat.

The craft, which Beijing says was a meteorological airship blown off course, was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean.