A second Chinese spy balloon has reportedly been spotted in Latin America.
On Friday evening, the Pentagon confirmed this news. Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder made a statement to CNN.
“We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America. We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” Ryder said.
This comes as a balloon was spotted moving east, 60,000 feet above the central continental U.S., last Friday.
Initially, the Pentagon had said the balloon currently did not pose a “military or political” threat.
According to a senior defense official, the United States has “extremely high confidence” that the object was a Chinese high-altitude balloon that was flying over key locations to gather intelligence. One of the states where the balloon was noticed was Montana, which is home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, one of the country’s three nuclear missile silo fields.
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