The White House reported that the US military saw a balloon over Alaska. According to this DEA NewsThe United States is not currently prepared to claim that the downed plane was gathering intelligence.
According to National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby, the device dropped by the US military was at an altitude of 12,000 meters, parts of it fell on ice-covered sea areas.
“The Department of Defense has been tracking a high-altitude object in Alaskan airspace for the past 24 hours. The object flew at an altitude of 40,000 feet (12 kilometers) and posed a particular hazard to civil aviation,” Kirby said.
He announced that President Joe Biden personally ordered the military to remove the high-rise object.
On February 5, the US military shot down a Chinese balloon that had been hovering over US soil for several days. The Pentagon called the downed device a spy device, while China said the balloon was a civilian probe and ended up accidentally over the United States. american side refused The wreckage of a dropped balloon returns to China.
After Xie Feng, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister declarationHe said that the actions of the United States regarding the balloon hurt the process of stabilizing relations between the two countries.