Military Tracking High-Altitude Object Over Western US
Feb 24, 2024 4:56:01 GMT -5
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Military Tracking High-Altitude Object Over Western US
By Johnathan Jones
February 23, 2024 at 4:01pm
The U.S. military was tracking a high-altitude balloon over the Western part of the country after it was spotted over Colorado on Friday afternoon, according to multiple reports.
CBS News reported it had spoken to U.S. military officials who relayed that, while the purpose and origin of the balloon were not yet known, they did not view it as a threat to the public.
An investigation is underway.
News of the balloon went viral on the social media platform X Friday.
Some connected it to Thursday’s widespread mobile phone service outage:
The balloon spotted Friday comes just a year after a Chinese balloon traversed the country last January and February for nearly a week.
The Chinese government claimed the balloon was rogue and was intended to monitor the weather.
That balloon was shot down after it left land off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4 of last year.
Remnants of it were later collected and analyzed and found to have contained equipment meant to gather intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The following week, other mysterious aerial objects were sighted in the Northern U.S., the Midwest and Canada.
Those balloons were also shot down by U.S. military fighter jets.
President Joe Biden said at the time he ordered the balloons to be eliminated on the advice of officials at NORAD.
“At their recommendation, I gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazards to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities,” Biden said in a statement.
“We acted in consultation with the Canadian government. I spoke personally with Prime Minister Trudeau … from Canada,” Biden added.
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By Johnathan Jones
February 23, 2024 at 4:01pm
The U.S. military was tracking a high-altitude balloon over the Western part of the country after it was spotted over Colorado on Friday afternoon, according to multiple reports.
CBS News reported it had spoken to U.S. military officials who relayed that, while the purpose and origin of the balloon were not yet known, they did not view it as a threat to the public.
An investigation is underway.
News of the balloon went viral on the social media platform X Friday.
Some connected it to Thursday’s widespread mobile phone service outage:
The balloon spotted Friday comes just a year after a Chinese balloon traversed the country last January and February for nearly a week.
The Chinese government claimed the balloon was rogue and was intended to monitor the weather.
That balloon was shot down after it left land off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4 of last year.
Remnants of it were later collected and analyzed and found to have contained equipment meant to gather intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The following week, other mysterious aerial objects were sighted in the Northern U.S., the Midwest and Canada.
Those balloons were also shot down by U.S. military fighter jets.
President Joe Biden said at the time he ordered the balloons to be eliminated on the advice of officials at NORAD.
“At their recommendation, I gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazards to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities,” Biden said in a statement.
“We acted in consultation with the Canadian government. I spoke personally with Prime Minister Trudeau … from Canada,” Biden added.
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