Even though a decision was made not to blow the spycraft out of the sky, the option remains open.
Chinese spy balloon over U.S.
The flying spycraft made its way over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and flew above Canada before it appeared over the city of Billings, Montana, on Wednesday, officials claimed.
“There have been reports of pilots seeing this thing even though it’s pretty high up in the sky,” one defense official claimed.”So you know, it’s, it’s sizable.” But in videos of the flying object, it sometimes appears to be flying lower.
Widespread sightings led the Billings Logan International Airport to shut down air traffic closing 50 sq miles of air space for two-hours.
Montana is home to one of three U.S. nuclear missile silo fields, which is based 250 miles southwest of Billings at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
Thursday at the Pentagon, officials would no longer disclose the location of the Chinese surveillance aircraft. And they would not provide details of the aerial vehicle including a description or its size.
