On the afternoon of the 4th local time, the U.S. military sent fighter jets to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon. Some witnesses said that the balloon fell like "a piece of crumpled toilet paper" after being shot down.

(Reuters)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] The U.S. military was ordered by President Biden to "take care of" a Chinese spy balloon that invaded U.S. airspace and shot it down on the 4th. It is currently recovering the wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean.

Witness Jeffrey Billie said he saw three jet fighters fly close to the balloon, and then a large, round white sphere floating in the air suddenly fell like "a crumpled piece of toilet paper".

According to comprehensive foreign media reports, the Chinese spy balloon incident caused tension between the United States and China. The United States sent F-22 fighter jets to shoot down the balloon floating at an altitude of 60,000 feet in the territorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean on the afternoon of the 4th.

Billy, a retired defense contractor who lives on the East Coast in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, happened to witness the action.

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Billy said there were two fighter planes flying around the balloon, and then a third flew closer to the balloon, and then fired a missile as the balloon left the coastline. "Then we saw this big, round white ball, and suddenly Became like a crumpled piece of Kleenex toilet paper."

Another witness, sociology teacher Joey Lopes (Joey Lopes) from Georgetown, South Carolina, revealed that while joking with the people around him, he picked up his mobile phone to record, "We saw fighter jets flying There were about 3 or 4 of them hovering around the balloon, and then we heard a loud bang and the balloon disappeared."

The location where the Chinese spy balloon was shot down is approximately on the coast between North Carolina and South Carolina, and the (Horry County) Police Department in South Carolina, the United States, issued a statement stating that the US military is recovering balloon fragments from the Atlantic Ocean , Some debris may also have washed ashore, and urged the public, "The wreckage should not be touched, moved or picked up. These items are part of the federal investigation, and unauthorized destruction of the scene may interfere with the investigation."