WASHINGTON: The White House responded on Monday (Feb 13) to growing and at times fevered speculation over the shooting down of unidentified aerial objects by saying the targets could be anything from commercial craft to espionage devices, while denying that US balloons spy on China. After mounting pressure
Other than that they were much smaller, less sophisticated, and flying lower than the Chinese balloon from earlier this month, US officials know little - not even to whom they belonged.
Whether they were spying also remains unknown."Even if we have no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out," he said."Because we haven't been able to definitively assess what these most recent objects are, we acted out of an abundance of caution.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino called the location of the debris of the unidentified object shot down over the Yukon on Saturday"extremely challenging and difficult to access."
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