Citing the findings of the White House National Security Council, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the objects dropped this week over Canada and the United States were nothing more than balloons. He talked about it in the broadcast of the TV channel A B C.
According to Schumer, on the night of February 12, Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, held a briefing for him. The Senator stressed that the US National Security Service assumed that the downed plane was a balloon.
Schumer added that the balloons were much smaller than the one that was dropped off the South Carolina coast on February 4, and were at an altitude of about 12 km, posing a threat to the functioning of civil aviation.
Former Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder declarationthat an unidentified aircraft previously shot down in Canadian airspace was originally recorded in Alaskan airspace.
As Ryder explains, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will work with Canadian colleagues to investigate the debris of the falling balloon.