A spokesman for the White House National Security Council reported Tuesday, that there is a strong possibility that the flying objects that were shot down in recent days are not related with any espionage.
Spokesman, John Kirby, told several media outlets that the objects that were shot down over Alaska, the Yukon, and Lake Huron, are not believed to have had the same objective as the Chinese balloon that was shot down in early February over the Atlantic Ocean.
As Kirby explained, "The intelligence community’s considering as the principle explanation, that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose."
However, in reality the objects have not been identified. In fact, the spokesman himself acknowledged that the debris from the flying objects has yet to be found, and retrieved.
"We’re still doing the best we can with the observations that were made by the pilots, and with the flight profile data that we’ve tried to collect," he said.
Kirby explained that debris recovery has been delayed due to the harsh Arctic weather conditions in Alaska, the wilderness in Yukon and the geographic challenges of Huron.
"It could be some time before we locate the recovered debris. We’re taking this day by day and doing the best we can to try to locate the debris and then develop a plan to recover it," he said.
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GOP calls for more transparency
Following a classified briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, GOP senators called on the Biden Administration to be more transparent with the public by providing more information about all the flying objects that have been shot down recently.
"I appreciate the military coming to brief us, I appreciate the intelligence community briefing Congress in a classified setting. Nevertheless, Americans are worried, they're concerned, they're interested and they have a right to know why President Biden directed the actions that he did over the last week," said Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton.
