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The balloon was shot down on Saturday afternoon along the East Coast at President Joe Biden’s orders

China has played down the cancellation of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken after a large Chinese balloon suspected of conducting surveillance on U.S. military sites roiled diplomatic relations, saying that neither side had formally announced any such plan

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to Beijing after a high-altitude Chinese spy balloon was earlier spotted soaring over the city of Billings in Montana, US

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a trip to China amid a diplomatic row between the two countries

The Pentagon Friday evening (local time) said that another Chinese spy balloon was spotted flying over Latin America, a day after US officials said that they tracking a similar surveillance balloon making its way across the United States airspace. Read Further on Dynamite News:

The Pentagon announced that a second Chinese spy balloon was flying over Latin America. “We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America,” Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said, a day after the first craft was spotted over US skies.

A massive white orb flying across U.S. airspace has triggered a diplomatic maelstrom and is blowing up on social media

Secretary of state calls the incident in US airspace a ‘clear violation of US sovereignty and international law’

Aside from the government response, fuzzy videos dotted social media as people with binoculars and telephoto lenses tried to find the “spy balloon” in the sky as it headed southeastward over Kansas and Missouri at 60,000 feet.

Development comes as original spy balloon continues to move east across the US

President Biden was briefed on the balloon Tuesday and chose against shooting it down as it could cause debris