Operation Underway to Find Chinese Spy Balloon’s Debris

The U.S. military is working to recover the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina Saturday by a U.S. military fighter jet and expects to gain valuable intelligence from what it finds, the Department of Defense said. Several U.S. Navy and Coastal vessels established a security perimeter where the balloon fell, about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina, and were searching for debris, a senior defense official and a senior military official said on Feb. 4. Pentagon official says it will be ‘fairly easy’ to recover shot-down spy balloon “The nature…