American officials believe that the latest two aerial objects shot down by the US were balloons, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.
The remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4.FBI special agents process material recovered from the high altitude balloon recovered off the coast of South Carolina.Advertisement
Both objects are believed to have been carrying payloads, and the one shot down over Canada on Saturday was a “small metallic balloon,”on Friday was about the size of a small car, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said after that incident. On Feb. 4, an Air Force F-22 fighter shot down what officials have said was a Chinese spy balloon about the size of three school buses that floated across the US at an altitude of about 60,000 feet before it was downed off the coast of South Carolina.A suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down over Alaska on Friday.Beijing has denied those allegations and claimed that the balloon was merely gathering weather data.
Schumer said Sunday that the US would be able to use debris from the first incident “to piece together this whole, whole surveillance balloon, and know exactly what’s going on. “Look, I think the Chinese were humiliated. I think the Chinese were caught lying,” he said. “And I think it’s a real — it’s a real step back for them, yes. I think they’re going to have to — I think they’re probably going to have to get rid of it or do something because they look really bad. And they’re not just doing the United States. This is a crew of balloons, we saw one in South America, they’ve probably been all over the world.
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