The U.S. doesn't believe the three unidentified objects shot down over North America last weekend were from China or posed a national security threat, per National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby today
“We don’t see anything that points right now to being part of [China’s] spy balloon program,” John Kirby told reporters. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe U.S. does not believe that the three unidentified objects shot down over North America last weekend were from China or posed a national security threat, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday.
Intelligence officials believe the objects, which were shot down a week after a Chinese spy balloon was downed off the coast of South Carolina, could be “tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” he said. It’s still unclear what the objects were, and administration officials have provided few details. Senators received another classified briefing from the administration on the incursions on Tuesday, but they haven’t shed much light.
When the balloon was shot down over the Atlantic, some materials floated while the payload, which carries critical information about the airship, sank to the “ocean bottom,” FBI officials told reporters last week. Crews have since successfully recovered parts of the balloon.
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