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Nearly 2,000 balloons are launched into the sky daily, to monitor everything from the weather to specific phenomena in space

The shootdowns came in steady succession over the weekend, after alarms were raised in early February over an object spotted over Montana.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh alleges that US Navy divers laid the bombs that destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea last September, cutting Russian gas supplies to Europe. The Pentagon has denied the claim but Moscow, which Western countries suspect of involvement, says it should be taken…

For the first time in Super Bowl history, an all-female team of U.S. Navy aviators will conduct the pregame flyover, commemorating 50 years of women pilots in the military branch.

FBI and State Department officials gave reporters an update on some of what the U.S. has learned so far about the balloon.

The Chinese balloon shot down over the United States was part of a huge, military-linked aerial spy scheme targeting more than 40 countries, according to the US government.


WASHINGTON: Images from U2 spy planes showed that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was unmistakably equipped for collecting intelligence and not weather data, a US official said on Thursday.

Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a news conference Wednesday that four more balloons have now been spotted flying in the skies above America

It comes after the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon which had travelled over the United States