Incident involved third unidentified object downed by US and Canadian jets in recent days, and follows shooting of large balloon claimed by China
over North American airspace in a week on Sunday over Lake Huron in Michigan, confirmed the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
The Democratic majority leader of the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, told ABC’s This Week on Sunday that he had been briefed by the White House and that officials were now convinced that all of the first three flying objects brought down by air-to-air missiles this week were balloons. He put the finger of blame firmly on China.
The object, described as cylindrical, had been flying at 40,000ft in Canadian territory and was considered a risk to civilian air traffic. The air force decided to wait until it was over the Atlantic before shooting it down out of concern for civilians on the ground, the Pentagon said.
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