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The United States has concluded its efforts to collect the remains of a Chinese spy balloon that it shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4.
U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversees the defense for much of North America, said in a Feb. 17 statement that the final pieces of the debris had been collected and would be given to the FBI for analysis.
“Recovery operations concluded Feb. 16 off the coast of South Carolina, after U.S. Navy assets assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully located and retrieved debris from the high-altitude PRC surveillance balloon shot down Feb. 4, 2023,” NORTHCOM said.
“Final pieces of debris are being transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory in Virginia for counterintelligence exploitation, as has occurred with the previous surface and subsurface debris recovered.
