The Pentagon said on Thursday it was tracking a high-flying blimp over the northern United States. This was announced at a briefing by Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder.

According to the US military, this plane belongs to China. The military declined to say how long they had been tracking the balloon’s flight, but noted that its flight path passed over a number of important objects.

“The United States government has now located and is monitoring a surveillance bubble over the continental United States. The US government, including NORAD, continues to monitor it closely.

“The balloon currently travels at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and poses no military or physical threat to people on the ground,” Pat Ryder said in a February 2 briefing. Said.

He added that such balloon-flying incidents have occurred before in the last few years. After the balloon was discovered over the United States, the country’s government took measures to protect against the collection of sensitive information by foreign intelligence. President Joe Biden was made aware of this. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and senior military officials were considering breaking the bubble in sparsely populated areas of Montana.

However, they decided not to do so as it puts the safety of people on the ground at risk due to possible debris falling from the equipment on the aerostat. The United States brought this issue closer to the Chinese side through diplomatic channels. They interacted through both the Chinese embassy in Washington and the American embassy in Beijing.