- The White House on Tuesday said the three objects downed by the U.S. military in the past five days were likely used for “benign” or commercial purposes and were not part of the Chinese spy program but the remnants have not yet been recovered.
- “These could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, according to NPR.
- “While we can’t definitively say, again without analyzing the debris, what these objects were, thus far — and I caveat that by saying thus far — we haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the [China’s] spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts,” Kirby also said.
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Much Ado About Nothing: White House Says Downed UFOs Likely ‘Benign’
