The photo really does appear to be a selfie taken by a U-2 pilot ... as is the right side view mirror bolted inside the cockpit. The pilot was even able to catch the shadow of his own aircraft ...

And on February 8, CNN reported before this photo’s official release that a “pilot took a selfie in the cockpit that shows both the pilot and the surveillance balloon itself,” citing US ...

A US Air Force pilot took a selfie with the Chinese spy balloon before ... A pilot took a picture of the balloon from the cockpit, and it began circulating online earlier this week.

The US defense department has released a high-altitude cockpit selfie of a U-2 spy plane pilot soaring over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon the day before it was shot down. President Joe ...

The U.S. Department of Defense released a previously classified “selfie” Wednesday, taken from the cockpit of a U-2 intelligence plane. Behind the pilot can be seen the now-infamous Chinese ...

The U.S. Department of Defense released a previously classified “selfie” Wednesday, taken from the cockpit of a U-2 intelligence plane. Behind the pilot can be seen the now-infamous Chinese ...

The U.S. Department of Defense released a previously classified “selfie” Wednesday, taken from the cockpit of a U-2 intelligence plane. Behind the pilot can be seen the now-infamous Chinese ...

The image is a “selfie” taken from the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin U-2 spy plane by the aircraft’s pilot. Washington confirmed on 9 February that the high-altitude jets had been used to ...

He was wounded when debris from one of the destroyed drones penetrated his cockpit ... the shocking selfie. “I will say succinctly, no one and nothing can break us!” the pilot wrote on his ...

The pilot of a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane ... United States earlier this month managed to snap a selfie with the balloon from the cockpit of the aircraft. The photo, the existence of which was ...

The U.S. Department of Defense released a previously classified “selfie” Wednesday, taken from the cockpit of a U-2 intelligence plane. Behind the pilot can be seen the now-infamous Chinese ...

Department of Defence via AP Washington: The US defence department has released a high-altitude cockpit selfie of a U-2 spy plane pilot soaring over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon the day ...