Kirby told the media that the spy balloon shot down last week belonged to China’s “high-altitude balloon program for intelligence gathering.”
Kirby said the military shot down the three objects since the first because they wanted “to air on the side of safety” since they couldn’t rule out the possibility of them spying on the country:
KIRBY: “… any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn’t rule that out. And so there — you know, you want to air on the side of safety here in terms of protecting our national security interests and the fact that these objects could have and — and likely did at some point in their path, transit over, you know, potential military sites of ours, our sensitive sites.”
John Kirby: We couldn't rule out that the unidentified objects were gathering surveillance information. "You want to air on the side of safety…in terms of protecting our national security…these objects…likely did…transit over potential military sites…"
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