China’s Spy Balloon Had Explosives to Self-Detonate

The following are the shooting down Pentagon officials discovered that a Chinese spy ballon was possibly carrying explosives.

The following is an extract from the Daily Mail, Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command, revealed in a Monday call with reporters that the Balloon, in addition to potentially carrying explosives, was 200 feet tall, weighed thousands of pounds, and its payload was the size of a jetliner.

VanHerck’s comments came following a briefing by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who defended Biden’s decision to wait to shoot down the balloon until the weekend.

“Because the president decided they wouldn’t shoot it down until he could do so safely, and that meant over water, that afforded us a terrific opportunity to gain a better understanding, to study the capabilities of this balloon,” Kirby said.

A missile was fired by an F-22 fighter aircraft to bring down the balloon off the coast South Carolina’s coast on Saturday afternoon.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop shortly before the balloon was brought down. It had done so for three airports in Carolina: Myrtle Beach (South Carolina), Charleston (South Carolina), and Wilmington, North Carolina.

The balloon The aircraft had entered US airspace January 28th and was known to Biden’s administration for almost a week before it was reported in the news on Thursday February 2. The White House reportedly tried to keep its presence secret to not disrupt Secretary State Antony Blinken Scheduled trip to China was delayed after discovery of the balloon by the public.

This is a breaking story that will be updated.

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