The US military announced on the 13th that it had recovered key parts of a Chinese reconnaissance balloon shot down on the 4th.
“A significant amount of debris was recovered from the site, including all sensors and electronic components, as well as a large portion of the object,” the US Northern Command said in a statement that day.
In North America, following a reconnaissance balloon shot down over South Carolina on the 4th, unidentified flying objects were found and shot down over Alaska on the 10th, Yukon, Canada on the 11th, and over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border on the 12th.
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Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that the four aerial objects shot down in recent days were interconnected.
Prime Minister Trudeau said at a press conference in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, that there was “clearly some kind of pattern” to recent events, and that the objects in question were “seen quite a lot in the past week, which is interesting and noteworthy.”
Meanwhile, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a regular briefing on the 14th that the United States has illegally flown more than 10 high-altitude balloons into its airspace and other countries since May 2022, saying, “It is necessary to thoroughly investigate and explain this.”
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*This article was sourced from Archyde.com.
