US shoots down Chinese spy balloon, confirms President Joe Biden

President Biden said he had ordered the military to shoot it down on Wednesday in internal discussions preceding the public disclosure.

US shoots down Chinese spy balloon, confirms President Joe Biden

Fighter jets have shot down the Chinese spy balloon that had been adrift across US airspace for days now.

"I ordered them to shoot it down," President Joe Biden said on Saturday confirming the downing of the Chinese contraption that had gripped the country in a frenzy since Thursday, when the US department of defense had first made it public, acknowledging, at the same time, it was not first such incident.