U.S. military forces have shot down another high-altitude flying object this Sunday, this time over Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes in the northeastern United States.
Sources quoted by CNN have reported this new incident in what is the third consecutive day in which unidentified objects have been reported shot down over North America.
On Saturday a U.S. F-22 fighter shot down an unidentified object over the Yukon Territory in western Canada, and on Friday another object was shot down over Alaskan airspace.
Last Sunday a Chinese spy balloon was shot down over the Atlantic after crossing all of North America. Washington claims it was a Chinese spy balloon, but Beijing maintains it was a weather balloon that accidentally strayed.
This Sunday, Senate Democratic Party spokesman Chuck Schumer revealed that the two objects shot down on Saturday and Friday were balloons, albeit much smaller than the one shot down a week ago.
«I think the Chinese have been caught in their lies and I think it’s a real step backwards for them,» he said in statements to ABC.
«They’re probably going to have to get rid of it or something because they’ve looked really bad. And they’re not just doing it in the United States. There’s a whole fleet of balloons. We’ve spotted one in South America. They’re probably all over the world,» he said.
Schumer acknowledged that the first balloon probably got some intelligence data, but defended its downing because it was «a big blow» because the United States will get valuable information for the secret services.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
