UPDATE: The Chinese balloon once over Montana was believed to have moved over Kansas and into Missouri on Friday
U.S. Sen. Rodger Marshall, R-Kansas, said he can confirm the Chinese spy balloon was over northeast Kansas.
The decision came just hours before Blinken had been due to depart Washington for Beijing and marked a new blow to already strained U.S.-Chinese relations. The official said Blinken and President Joe Biden determined it was best not to proceed with the trip at this time. A senior defense official said the U.S. prepared fighter jets, including F-22s, to shoot down the balloon if ordered. The Pentagon ultimately recommended against it, noting that even as the balloon was over a sparsely populated area of Montana, its size would create a debris field large enough that it could have put people at risk.
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