As of Saturday, the giant white balloon that U.S. authorities claimed was sent over by China to spy on the country is no more.
Late Thursday night, a giant, mysterious balloon floated over the United States, apparently by way of the Pacific Ocean all the way to sensitive air space in Montana.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… Chinese spy balloon? According to China, the answer is a sheepish “uh, no.”
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Defense officials claim that a Chinese surveillance balloon has been drifting over the northern part of the United States for the past several days.