A day before a US military jet shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon off the country’s Atlantic coast on Saturday, Colombia’s military confirmed the presence of a balloon-like aerial object flying over its territory.
Colombia’s Air Force issued a statement on Saturday providing limited details about a possible balloon its air defense system located on Friday morning.
US military officials said on Friday that another Chinese balloon had been sighted somewhere in Latin America, but did not specify its location.
According to the statement from the Colombian Air Force, an “object” was detected over its territory at an altitude of almost 17,000 meters that had entered the airspace of the South American country to the north moving at an average speed of 25 knots.
The statement adds that the object exhibited “balloon-like characteristics” and that the Air Force monitored it until it left the country’s airspace.
“It was determined that it did not pose a threat to national security,” the statement added.
No further official confirmation of unidentified balloons flying over other Latin American countries was issued as of Sunday.
In recent days, however, reports of balloon sightings have been made in Venezuela and Costa Rica by various social media users.
The saga of the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the US coast captivated public attention for days and was widely seen as a downturn in US-China relations.
Source: CNN Brasil
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