Down goes the CCP spy balloon

U.S. officials announced Saturday afternoon that the military has downed the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was first spotted days earlier hovering over sensitive military facilities in Montana, disrupting the Biden administration’s recent efforts to cool tensions with Beijing.

The suspected surveillance aircraft was downed off the Carolina coast, the Associated Press reported, and an operation is currently under way to recover the resulting debris.

The craft was spotted Thursday making its way over a military base outside Billings, Mont. that house intercontinental ballistic missiles.