In case you ’ve missed the excitement , lately the US has been shooting down mysterious and suspect objects from its airspace . So far , four object have been down .
The first aim is believed by the US to be a Chinese spy balloon , while China deny this and claim that it was aweather balloon blown off course . The other three weremore unmanageable to retrieve , in all likelihood lie in the deep water system of Lake Huron , and the wilderness of Alaska and Canada .
The White House now has a " result account " into those subsequent three objects , downgrading them frompossible aliensto probable commercial or inquiry balloons .
" We have n’t see any indicant or anything that points specifically to the approximation that these three objects were part of the [ People ’s Republic of China ’s ] catching political platform , " the White House National Security Council say at apress league , " or that they were definitively involved in international intelligence aggregation elbow grease " .
A leading explanation so far , presently being investigated by US intelligence , is that " these could be balloon that were simply tied to commercial or inquiry entities and therefore benignant . "
The first balloon is still believe to be a undercover agent balloon , according to the US . China has been spot flyingmilitary balloons over Taiwanover the last few year , likely as a variant of surveillance .
Though they might not be as sophisticated as orbiter , balloons have the reward that you could launch them a band more silently devote the deficiency of thousands of pounds of garden rocket fuel affect . They also have the reward of unpredictability , liken to satellite which can be tracked by whoever you happen to be spying on , thedirector of the RAF Centre for Air and Space Power Studies , Dr David Jordan , told theGuardian .
In this guinea pig , however , one US official say CBSthat they wereable to tail the balloon from liftoff . fit in to the unknown source , the balloon accept off from a base on Hainan Island and drift towards Guam before China find control of the balloon and it head towards Alaska .
