Washington stumped by unknown flying objects after shoot-downs by U.S. forces
Lawmakers said they were told efforts to recover the debris from the austere northern coast of Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron are ongoing. The White House confirmed on Tuesday that those efforts have been challenged by harsh weather conditions preventing the Pentagon from recovering the downed objects.
“We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the [People’s Republic of China’s] spy balloon program or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts,” he told reporters. Each AIM-9X Sidewinder missile costs about $400,000, meaning the U.S. spent almost $1 million to take out an object described in press accounts as a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.”
But both senators raised concerns over information sharing between the Pentagon and intelligence community with civilian counterparts when it comes to identified aircraft in U.S. airspace. “The American people need and deserve to know more,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “There is a lot of information presented to us this morning that could be told to the American people without any harm to sources or methods or our national security, and the American people need to know more so that they’ll have more confidence in our national security.”Those facts should come directly from the commander-in-chief, said Sen.
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