{"id":52860,"date":"2023-02-23T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/pentagon-pilot-selfie-chinese-spy-balloon"},"modified":"2023-02-23T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:20:28","slug":"pentagon-releases-selfie-of-us-pilot-flying-above-chinese-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52860","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon releases selfie of US pilot flying above Chinese spy balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture was taken from the jet as the balloon entered US airspace earlier this month, before it was shot down over the Atlantic<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has released a selfie photograph snapped by the pilot of a U2 spy plane that was hurtling through the skies above the Chinese spy balloon as the US military pursued and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/04\/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-us\">shot it down<\/a> off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The image clearly shows the mysterious, silvery-white sphere of the balloon with panels dangling below it and, whether intended artistically or not, a striking sight of the shadow of the US aircraft cast against the balloon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/pentagon-pilot-selfie-chinese-spy-balloon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture was taken from the jet as the balloon entered US airspace earlier this month, before it was shot down over the AtlanticThe Pentagon has released a selfie photograph snapped by the pilot of a U2 spy plane that was hurtling through the skies abov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2854,667,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-china-spy-balloon-incident-2023","category-espionage","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52860\/revisions\/52861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}