Salvage Mission to Recover Debris of Chinese High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon, Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina, United States - 05 Feb 2023
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 (EODGRU 2) recovered a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on February 5, 2023. At the direction of the President of the United States and with the full support of the Government of Canada, a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, on the authority of Northern Command, engaged and brought down the Chinese spy balloon within sovereign U.S. airspace and over U.S. territorial waters on February 4, 2023.
