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US military begins recovering Chinese spy balloon debris (photos)
By Mike Wall published
Recovery teams have already found some pieces of the Chinese surveillance balloon, which an F-22 fighter jet shot down on Saturday (Feb. 4).
Previous Chinese spy balloons over US were classified as UFOs: report
By Mike Wall published
Some previous detections of Chinese surveillance balloons in U.S. airspace were initially categorized as "unidentified aerial phenomena," according to a report in The New York Times.
US military shoots down Chinese surveillance balloon
By Mike Wall published
An F-22 fighter jet destroyed a Chinese balloon with a Sidewinder missile on Saturday (Feb. 4) when the airship was over the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast.
Chinese surveillance balloon in US airspace causes international stir
By Brett Tingley published
China's foreign ministry confirmed that a high-altitude spy balloon seen flying over the northern United States this week was a Chinese airship, claiming that the vehicle is a weather balloon.
DARPA's hypersonic HAWC completes final flight test at over Mach 5
By Brett Tingley published
DARPA announced the end of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program with a final successful test flight that reached speeds over Mach 5 and flew for more than 300 nautical miles.
This wild DARPA CRANE X-plane could be a giant leap in aircraft design
By Elizabeth Howell published
Aurora Flight Sciences will start the detailed design of the novel, high-performance aircraft as it powers towards an X-plane demonstration flight.
Eerie blue spiral in night sky over Hawaii spawned by SpaceX rocket
By Elizabeth Howell published
The Subaru Telescope spotted a spiral shape in the sky shortly after SpaceX sent a GPS satellite to space on Wednesday (Jan. 18).
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch spotted from space station (photo)
By Mike Wall published
A high-definition exterior camera on the International Space Station snapped a shot of the plume created by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy during its Jan. 15 launch.
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