Salvage efforts are underway offshore near where the balloons were brought down. US officials said
Suspected Chinese reconnaissance balloon-like aircraft flying over the United States It has been seen in at least two Latin American countries this week.
CNN is aware of at least half a dozen eyewitnesses in Latin America who reported seeing white balloons. Share videos and pictures on social media about flights over Costa Rica and Colombia. CNN could not confirm whether these images show Chinese surveillance balloons.
Colombian media reported sightings of balloons flying about 70,000 feet above the airspace of the South American country. According to the Colombian Army
Hot air balloons have been seen hovering over Costa Rica. This may be the same ball seen in Colombia.
The governments of Colombia and Costa Rica have not issued any official confirmations or statements about the sightings.
On Friday evening, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said: “We are seeing reports of balloons moving across Latin America. We now assess it as another Chinese spy balloon.” without specifying the exact position of the balloon.
Esteban Carranza, lawyer from Costa Rica video post of balloons on Twitter on Thursday, saying, “The same balloon seen in the United States is visible all day in the Costa Rica sky.”
Carranza told CNN that he photographed a white balloon flying over San Jose. The capital of Costa Rica, CNN geolocated the video to the village of Escazú, a shopping mall in the city of San José.
“I have to say. I was quite excited at first thinking I had seen a UFO. Because the object is big, bright and completely stationary,” he said.
“I looked at objects from different places for about 45 minutes, stationary, and a few hours later went away again. and it’s still in the same place Many people looked at it from different parts of the object, even if it wasn’t a UFO. But it is still an extraordinary and exciting experience,” he adds.
The object was also found over Colombia near the city of Valledupar. According to a video shared with CNN.
Luis Armando Toloza Calvo shot the video Friday at 12:13 p.m. ET using his cell phone and telescope.
Initially, there was a white dot floating in the sky before Calvo pointed the lens of his cell phone at the telescope to get a better view of the object.
