U.S. spy plane pilot takes a selfie with a Chinese balloon
A new picture shows a selfie taken by a U.S. spy plane pilot with a Chinese balloon. In the photo, which was taken on February 3, the pilot of a U-2 can be seen looking down at what is thought to be a surveillance balloon as it floats over the United States.
News in Germany: U.S. spy plane pilot takes a selfie with Chinese balloon
The Department of Defense has released a new photo of an Air Force pilot flying above the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over U.S. territory earlier this month.
In the picture, which was taken on February 3, the pilot of a U-2 spy plane can be seen looking down at the surveillance balloon as it floats over the Central Continental U.S.
Who the U.S. spy plane pilot actually was?
The Defense Department was not able to figure out the U.S. spy plane pilot. During a briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, it was confirmed that it was real.
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters at the briefing that the search for the balloon’s sensors and other parts, which had been shot down by a missile on February 4 off the coast of South Carolina, had ended last week.
Singh said, “Most of the balloon was found, and the payload was also found.” John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said at a recent news briefing that the material that had been found was now at the FBI laboratory in Quantico. He said, “It’s a lot, a big amount, and it includes the payload structure, some of the electronics, and the optics”.
Beijing has said that Washington is making the situation worse:
China says the balloon was an unmanned civilian airship used for meteorological research that went off course and that shooting it down was an overreaction and a violation of international rules. Beijing has said that Washington is making the situation worse.
Officials said they were done looking for pieces of three other unidentified flying objects that were shot down this month over Alaska, Canada, and Lake Huron, which are hard to get to.
Kirby said there was no evidence that these objects were part of China’s surveillance balloon program and that the U.S. intelligence community was looking into whether they had “some commercial or harmless purpose”.
For More Latest Updates, Click Here.