After a classified briefing, senators from both parties said the spate of unidentified floating objects shot down by U.S. jets don’t pose an immediate threat to Americans. But many urged the Biden administration to share more information with the public.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to reporters after the Senate classified briefing on the three unidentified objects shot down by the U.S. military over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron, in the Capitol on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
U.S. officials are working to determine who launched the three unidentified objects and why, but say they did not pose a threat to people on the ground. Senators, who were briefed on the matter Tuesday, said the latest objects have not been recovered due to difficult terrain and inclement weather on the ground.Since the initial balloon sighting, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for more transparency from the Biden administration.
While he said he didn't believe there were many more of these objects over the U.S., he conceded he doesn't know that for sure. "I appreciate the military coming to brief us, I appreciate the intelligence community briefing Congress in a classified setting. But Americans are worried, they're concerned, they're interested and they have a right to know why President Biden directed the actions that he did over the last week," he said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence panel, stressed that unidentified objects over U.S. airspace is not new — but the strategy to shoot them down is. He also called on the Biden administration to share more information with the general public. "I think some of our Republican colleagues are being at the very minimum premature, and often just very political," Schumer said."There's a lot of information to assess, there's a lot of information to recover. And the administration is on top of this, and done a very very good job.
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