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150 warheads located at Malmstrom Air Force Base

The balloon was shot down on Saturday afternoon along the East Coast at President Joe Biden’s orders

The Pentagon announced that a second Chinese spy balloon was flying over Latin America. “We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America,” Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said, a day after the first craft was spotted over US skies.

A massive white orb flying across U.S. airspace has triggered a diplomatic maelstrom and is blowing up on social media

Secretary of state calls the incident in US airspace a ‘clear violation of US sovereignty and international law’

Aside from the government response, fuzzy videos dotted social media as people with binoculars and telephoto lenses tried to find the “spy balloon” in the sky as it headed southeastward over Kansas and Missouri at 60,000 feet.

Development comes as original spy balloon continues to move east across the US

President Biden was briefed on the balloon Tuesday and chose against shooting it down as it could cause debris

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department says it’s monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, as of Friday floating over the Central U.S. and underscoring mutual suspicion between the world’s two largest economies just as top diplomats had prepared to hold talks in Beijing. Here’s what we know so far: