The United States believes the last two flying objects shot down in North America were balloons, albeit smaller than the alleged Chinese spy balloon intercepted last week, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.
The United States shot down a Chinese balloon on February 4, considering that it was on a spy mission over its territory, and since then two other similar objects have been shot down, one in Alaska and the other in Canada, although it has not given more details. . details about these devices.
In an interview with the US television network ABC, Schumer revealed that President Joe Biden’s team believes that these last two objects were also balloons, “but much smaller than the first.”
The senator, who was briefed on these objects by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, said the devices flew at an altitude of 40,000 feet, posing a “danger” to commercial aviation.
Schumer emphasized that until a few months ago the United States did not know anything about these balloons and assured that the Army and the US intelligence services are focused on collecting all the necessary information.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that an object flying over Canada’s northwestern Yucon region had been shot down with help from the United States.
The day before, on Friday, the United States shot down another object of unknown origin that was flying at a high altitude in Alaska and whose remains fell into the water.
Both events occurred amid a diplomatic crisis between Washington and Beijing after the United States last week shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon that was flying over much of its territory.
The Biden administration accused China of having developed, with the participation of the Armed Forces, a balloon “program” for espionage actions that would have already flown over more than 40 countries on five continents.
China maintains that the balloon that the United States shot down was a weather device that “deviated from its original course” due to “force majeure.”
Already today, the authorities of the Chinese province of Shandong, in the east of the country, announced the finding of an “unidentified flying object (UFO)” near the coast, as they prepared to shoot it down.
The object was located in the waters of the Yellow Sea, near the coast of the city of Rizhao, according to a statement from the provincial maritime authorities, published by the English-language Chinese state newspaper Global Times.
The statement added that the Chinese Army was preparing to shoot down the object, so the authorities ask the fishermen in the region to adopt the necessary protection measures.
Source: TSF
