Spy balloon dustup sends US-China relations from bad to worse | The Hill Skip to content Revelations of a global Chinese balloon spying program have upended fledgling attempts by President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to manage tensions that risk spiraling into confrontation and conflict. Lines of communication between Washington and Beijing remain in […]
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Administration scrambles to quell Congress’s frustration over balloon, UFOs | The Hill Skip to content Greg Nash Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) speaks to reporters as he leaves an all Senators briefing in the Capitol on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 to discuss the recent unidentified objects detected and shot down. Senior administration officials scrambled Tuesday to […]
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Lawmakers demand Biden address nation on UFO incursions | The Hill Skip to content Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray points to a video display of a UAP during a hearing of the House Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Washington. […]
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No signs of ‘aliens or extraterrestrial activity’ with shot-down objects: White House Skip to content Greg Nash White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addresses reporters during the daily briefing at the White House on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. The White House on Monday shot down speculation that there may be an extraterrestrial component to recent […]
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Unidentified flying objects shot down by the US: What we know and don’t know Skip to content Three more objects were shot down by the U.S. military over the weekend after officials said they posed a threat to civilian airspace. The remarkable development came roughly one week after the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance […]
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Increase in aerial objects possibly due to ‘enhancing radar’: US official | The Hill Skip to content A top US official said on Sunday that the stark increase in the military spotting and shooting down aerial objects in recent days may be due to enhancing radar systems. “In light of the People’s Republic of China […]
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Questions loom over US takedown of flying objects | The Hill Skip to content This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a U.S. Air Force pilot taking off in an F-22 Raptor at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. At the direction President Joe Biden, military aircraft brought down a high […]
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Chinese ‘spy’ balloon: Marjorie Taylor Greene wants probe into why Trump was unaware of previous balloons Skip to content Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday called for a probe into why former President Trump was apparently not informed of previous Chinese surveillance balloons that Biden officials are saying crossed over the U.S. at least […]
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Obama defense secretary questions Biden’s response to Chinese balloon | The Hill Skip to content Leon Panetta, a former defense secretary in the Obama administration, questioned the Biden administration’s response to the suspected Chinese spy balloon that drifted across the U.S. before being shot down off the Carolina coast on Saturday. During an appearance on […]
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Biden says he ordered US military to shoot down Chinese ‘spy’ balloon ‘as soon as possible’ | The Hill Skip to content President Joe Biden speaks with members of the press after stepping off Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Md., Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, en route to Camp David for the […]
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Chinese balloon North Carolina: Biden might strike it down Skip to content Annabelle Gordon President Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, February 2, 2023. The Biden administration is weighing a plan to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon that has been moving across the continental United States once it […]
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Pentagon confirms second Chinese ‘surveillance balloon’ seen over Latin America | The Hill Skip to content A high altitude balloon, , which U.S. officials have speculated as a spy balloon from China, floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Another balloon was detected over Latin America on Friday evening. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette […]
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