The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the one downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend.
The balloon incident has become a serious obstacle to one of President Biden’s top foreign policy goals: stabilizing the prickly U.S. relationship with Beijing.The government has said the first balloon was about the size of three school buses. It was shot down Feb. 4 off the South Carolina coast after it had traversed the United States. The Biden administrationSchumer said teams were recovering debris from the objects and would work to determine where they came from.
“The bottom line is until a few months ago we didn’t know about these balloons,” Schumer said. “It is wild that we didn’t know. ... Now they are learning a lot more. And the military and the intelligence are focused like a laser on first gathering and accumulating the information, then coming up with a comprehensive analysis.”
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