Videos posted to social media showed aircraft circling around theThe US Coast Guard had asked mariners to avoid the area of the balloon due to US military actions"that present a significant hazard" before the jets shot the balloon down on Saturday.
The American Federal Aviation Administration also temporarily shut down airspace along the Carolina coastline and closed airports in Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Senior defense officials said that an F-22 jet from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia shot the balloon with a single shot, according toChina has admitted ownership of the device, but the country's Foreign Ministery said on Friday that it"strayed into the United States due to force majeure."
One video posted by WCNC chief meteorologist, Brad Panovich, shows two jets circling widely around the balloon floating over Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, at around 13:29 local time on Saturday.
BISouthAfrica Never trust the Chinese!!!
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BISouthAfrica Maybe they had the second pandemic on there..? If so the Chinese must be laughing their arses off...
BISouthAfrica Well done US.
BISouthAfrica Narratives used when they are planning a 'war,' just collapse the global economy and stop your funny games
BISouthAfrica China was just showing them that their airspace is not a fort they thought it is and to give them a taste of their own medicine
BISouthAfrica Sure it was not just a kids party balloon that escaped a kiddy?
BISouthAfrica Don’t worry it is not coming to South Africa, everything is off here 😂
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