{"id":628877,"date":"2023-02-03T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=628877"},"modified":"2023-02-03T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:12:36","slug":"norad-issues-statement-about-china-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/norad-issues-statement-about-china-balloon","title":{"rendered":"NORAD issues statement about China balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(COLORADO SPRINGS) &#8212; Late Thursday night on Feb. 2 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command issued a statement about the alleged surveillance balloon currently over the continental U.S. According to NORAD, the U.S. government has detected and is tracking a &#8220;high altitude surveillance balloon&#8221; that is over the continental U.S. According to a report by AP News, China has said the balloon is a &#8220;civilian airship used for meteorological research.&#8221; &gt;&gt;China says balloon spotted over US is for research, was blown off course NORAD said they are continuing to track and monitor the balloon closely. &#8220;NORAD commander General Glen VanHerck assesses the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time,&#8221; said the release. The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic said NORAD. Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(COLORADO SPRINGS) &#8212; Late Thursday night on Feb. 2 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command issued a statement about the alleged surveillance balloon currently over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}