U.S. military officials have detected high-altitude balloons across the Middle East on multiple occasions over the last year, according to a senior Air Force general.
“So there certainly are balloons in the CENTCOM [area of responsibility],” Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said Monday. “They have not been a threat. They’ve flown through a few times since I've been in command, but nothing that I would be concerned about in any way.”
“The spy balloon from the PRC was, of course, different in that we knew precisely what it was,” Assistant Secretary of Defense Melissa Dalton, the lead Pentagon official for homeland defense, told reporters on Sunday."These most recent objects do not pose a kinetic military threat, but their path in proximity to sensitive DOD sites and the altitude that they were flying could be a hazard to civilian aviation and — and thus raised concerns.”U.S.
The objects were detected due to changes in the way the U.S. military monitors American airspace, according to VanHerck and Dalton.
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