Experts say the episodes exposed Norad's limitations when it comes to detecting small, slow-moving airborne objects,
The RCMP said the search for debris from an object shot down over Lake Huron has been suspended, but search efforts continue in Yukon.
In Washington President Joe Biden addressed the situation around the three mysterious objects, saying they were likely no danger to national security. He promised new rules to better govern the continent's crowded skies. "We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program, or they were surveillance vehicles from any other country," Biden said.
"We will be working with our American partners on protection of North American airspace. This is something that every step of the way we've done together," he said in Nassau. Those measures will include new rules and regulations for launching and maintaining airborne objects in U.S. airspace, a running and accessible inventory of what's overhead at any given time, and new parameters for how best to respond to potential dangers.
Recent reports suggest the working theory there is that the balloon was originally dispatched to examine U.S. military installations in Guam in the western Pacific Ocean, only to be blown so badly off course by high winds that it ended up drifting across North American airspace.
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