Defense officials said Saturday that the mission to recover a shot-down Chinese spy balloon was underway and was being conducted by U.S. Navy and Coast Guard personnel.
China expert Gordon Chang weighs in on the Chinese spy airship shot down by U.S. fighter jets off the coast of South Carolina as U.S.-China tensions grow on 'Fox News Live.'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.
Because the device fell into a relatively shallow area, which has an estimated depth of 47 feet, the recovery mission is expected to be"fairly easy," one official stated. However, officials said there was no estimate for the length of the mission. The Chinese balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday before officials acknowledged it.
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