As the recovery effort continued Tuesday, China's foreign ministry said the balloon 'doesn't belong to the U.S.'
over the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend was 200 feet tall and carried a payload the size of a regional airliner, a U.S. Air Force general said in a briefing on Monday.
The balloon's superstructure and hardware weighed"in excess of a couple thousand pounds," said Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.has stuck to its line that the balloon was a civilian airship collecting meteorological data, but VanHerck said NORAD was confident from the start about the craft's surveillance purposes.
The debris in the Atlantic was spread across nearly 1 square mile, or"more than 15 football fields by 15 football fields," according to VanHerck. U.S. Navy and Coast Guard crews taking part in the ongoing recovery effort were fishing up potentially hazardous pieces of wreckage from 50 feet of water, while other parts may have sunk or floated ashore, he said.
U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2022. VanHerck has told reporters that a Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off South Carolina was 200 feet tall and carried a payload weighing several thousand pounds.
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