Colombia says ‘object’ spotted overhead after Chinese balloon warning


Bogota says it tracked an ‘object’ overflying its territory on Friday, following a Chinese balloon entering US airspace recently. – AFP pic, February 6, 2023.

COLOMBIA said an “object” had overflown its territory after Washington warned that a suspected Chinese spy balloon similar to the one shot down off the US coast had been spotted over Latin America.

Colombia’s Air Force said the object with “characteristics similar to those of a balloon” was detected on Friday and “monitored until it left the national air space”.


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