WASHINGTON: A United States pilot flying high above a suspected Chinese spy balloon took a close-up, selfie-like photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast. The photo shows the top of the pilot's helmet inside cockpit of a U-2 aircraft, with the b
WASHINGTON: A United States pilot flying high above a suspected Chinese spy balloon took a close-up, selfie-like photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast.
The photo shows the top of the pilot's helmet inside cockpit of a U-2 aircraft, with the balloon flying below. It was taken on Feb 3 while the balloon was close to Kansas. The Pentagon released the image on Wednesday , more than two weeks after the balloon made international headlines asThe balloon was downed on Feb 4 by an F-22 fighter jet firing a AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. The strike took place once the balloon was no longer over land but was still within US territorial waters.The Pentagon announced last Friday that Navy ships and submersibles had completed recovery of the massive balloon and its payload, which fell in pieces into the Atlantic Ocean.
The"majority of the balloon", including its payload, was recovered from the ocean floor and is being analysed by the FBI, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said on Wednesday. The shootdown led to three other smaller objects also being shot down by Air Force jets within a period of eight days: One over Alaska, one
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