Object with balloon ‘characteristics’ flew over Columbia, air force confirms – National | 24CA News
An object with “characteristics similar” to a balloon entered Columbian airspace on Friday, based on the nation’s air power command.
“On Feb. 3, 2023 in the morning, the National Air Defense System detected an object over 55,000 ft., which entered Colombian airspace in the northern sector of the country,” a press launch from the air power stated Saturday in Spanish.
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The report comes the identical day because the United States navy shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on orders from President Joe Biden after it traversed delicate navy websites throughout North America.
In an announcement Saturday, Canada’s Minister of Federal Defence Minister Anita Anand says the nation “unequivocally supports” the United States authorities’s choice to shoot down the balloon, noting it violated Canadian airspace.
In Columbia, the air power tracked the suspected balloon till it left the airspace.
“It was determined that this element did not represent a threat to national security and defence, as well as to aviation safety,” Columbia’s air power stated within the launch in Spanish.
“The Institution carries out the pertinent investigations and coordination with different countries and institutions, to establish the origin of the object.”
– With recordsdata from The Associated Press
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