On Wednesday it was over the northwestern state of Montana and, along with neighboring Wyoming and North Dakota, the site where the US has deployed its land-based intercontinental missiles.
Last night it was flying over the
state of Missouri
, about 2,000 kilometers away, after having passed through Illinois and Kansas.
And it was still flying, at about 18 kilometers high, well above what passenger planes usually do, which usually do it at about 10 or 11 kilometers.
That is the journey of the Chinese spy balloon that is flying over the United States, and that the Government of
Joe Biden
insists that it is not going to shoot down, on the advice of the Armed Forces.
According to the White House, the military leaders have made a "strong recommendation" for the ship not to be intercepted, due to the danger that its remains could cause if they fall in populated areas, although they claim to have taken the necessary measures so that the aerostat does not get information about US national security systems.
The Pentagon estimates that the balloon will remain in US airspace for several more days, although it has not clarified what will happen then.
If, as China
claims ,
the ship is a meteorological research device that has gotten out of its control, it is expected that at some point it will end up falling to the ground either on US soil, on other countries, or in the ocean.
But if the balloon leaves US airspace to return to China, the government in Washington will have a hard time explaining to public opinion and the Republican opposition why it did not shoot it down when it was flying over the Pacific Ocean, which is not an inhabited area.
The White House, meanwhile, "keeps all options open," according to spokeswoman
Karine Saint-Pierre .
.
The White House has described the balloon flight as a "violation of sovereignty", but has not lodged any formal diplomatic protest with Beijing.
In any case, the Republicans are harshly attacking Biden for tolerating a systematic violation of the country's sovereignty carried out for days by the country that the US considers its greatest adversary in the world.
If the US manages to capture the entire globe or at least fragments of it, it will be able to gain access to Chinese technology, in the same way that the Soviet Union obtained materials for its space program in the 1950s with pieces of similar balloons launched by the US over that country from the territory of its European NATO allies.
A second globe in Latin America
The Pentagon, through Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, has reported that they had discovered what they called a Chinese "spy balloon" that was flying over the state of Montana (northwestern USA), announced yesterday the detection of a new aircraft in
Latin American skies.
This last accusation
has not received a reply
from the Chinese authorities, who this Saturday have only released until the publication of this article two communiqués dedicated to clarifying the situation created by the aircraft that flies over the United States.
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