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Spy balloons, UFOs and a standoff with China: Politics Weekly America

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Weather Balloons

The US military was tracking it all the way from its launch point in China and had been watching it cross the Pacific. Officials say it's possible the balloon was just blown off its initial course by weather, but they insist the Chinese still had control of it as the balloon came south over the lower 48 states. The equipment that was said to be about the size of a regional jet didn't look like weather balloons, at least not weather experts,. And of course, we will soon know because they have managed to salvage it off the coast of South Carolina and they're looking at it.

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