John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, said Tuesday that there is so far no evidence the three aircraft downed over the Arctic Ocean, Yukon’s boreal forest and Lake Huron were connected to international espionage
“The intelligence community is considering as a leading explanation that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” he told reporters on a conference call.
These developments – amid continued difficulty locating debris from the downed craft – highlight the uncertainty over the reason for the sudden spate of shoot-downs and difficulty in deciding how to handle them in future. In NORAD’s 65-year history, the U.S-Canada joint air defence system had never felled an aircraft over North America until this month.
Both governments have been careful about saying anything definitive about the UFOs, including whether they were balloons, even though U.S. and Canadian pilots appear to have observed them during NORAD’s tracking. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino cautioned that winter conditions both on Lake Huron and Yukon’s remote wilderness make searching hard. “This is going to take some time,” he said.U.S. says it only recently discovered that China has been using spy balloons
Another possibility is that the craft may be part of a new, stepped-up espionage effort by China, Russia or another U.S. adversary. The U.S. government said this week the balloon downed off South Carolina was part of a larger program run by Beijing for several years. The episodes have thrust into the spotlight a two-year-old U.S. government effort to compile information on UFO encounters. In its most recent report, issued last year, the U.S. National Intelligence Office listed 510 instances of “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
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