Us Airspace

Are they spy balloons or aliens? What we know about the flying objects spotted in US, Canada and even China

The US has shot down four flying objects in the past eight days — first a ‘spy balloon’ in South Carolina, followed up by instances in north Alaska, Canada and the third over Lake Huron. Has China increased its spying or is there something more to it?

Chinese ‘spy’ balloon: With payload of jetliner, it carried explosives to detonate, self-destruct, says Pentagon

Talking about the previous incidents of Chinese spy balloons flying over the US skies, VanHerch said, 'We did not detect those threats and that's a domain awareness gap'

China balloon: The many questions about the suspected spy in the sky

China insists the balloon was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited ‘self-steering’ capabilities. It also issued a threat of ‘further actions’

Ukraine invasion: European skies not for those who seek to brutally aggress, says EU on closing airspace to Russian airplanes

The moves by the European Union and Canada would put added pressure on the US to also bar Russian flights