President Biden said Wednesday that the three unidentified objects the U.S. shot down last weekend were “most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions, studying weather or conducting other scientific research”
traversed the skies over the continental U.S. earlier this month, the military expanded the parameters for how it detected slow-moving objects in U.S. airspace — and these three objects popped up on the radar as a result.
Biden said he ordered the objects shot down on the recommendation of the military and did not regret doing so. He added that he had ordered a review of U.S. airspace surveillance and that new parameters would be developed for how to detect and respond to similar objects. He emphasized that there’s no evidence “there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky.”
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