Downing of Chinese balloon off the US coast has been followed by three incidents, raising questions about North American security
, the military said, adding it was “within US sovereign airspace over US territorial water”. It lacked any system of propulsion or control, officials said.downed a “high-altitude airborne object” over Canada’s central Yukon territory
The object was described as an octagonal structure with strings hanging off it, and was not deemed to be a military threat to anything on the ground, but could have posed a hazard to civil aviation because it flew at about 20,000ft , the official said. The US military commander who safeguards US airspace said on Sunday he could not determine how the latest three objects shot down over the past three days were staying aloft, adding he was not calling them balloons for a reason.Military teams working from planes, boats and mini-subs are scouring the shallow waters off South Carolina for the first object, and military images showed the recovery of a large piece of balloon.
Recovery teams backed by a Canadian CP-140 patrol aircraft are searching for debris from the third object in the Yukon, Anand said on Saturday.US military personnel equipped with specialist diving gear designed for the extreme cold waters of Michigan’s Lake Huron are expected to be deployed quickly to search for pieces of the destroyed fourth object.The United States has said the balloons were part of a “fleet” that has spanned five continents.
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