Sunday's takedown of the unidentified object over Lake Huron marks the fourth such incident in just over week.
"These objects did not closely resemble and were much smaller than the PRC balloon and we will not definitively characterize them until we can recover the debris, which we are working on," a National Security Council spokesperson said, referring to the suspected Chinese spy balloon.
On Saturday, Canada's chief of defense staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre, also made mention of a "balloon" when describing instructions given to the team that worked to take down the object.The unidentified object that was shot down in Canadian airspace had been tracked since Friday evening, according to a statement from Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder.
Eyre said Saturday that "the instructions that were given to the the team was whoever had the first best shot to take out the balloon had to go ahead." "The object was flying at an altitude of approximately 40,000 feet, had unlawfully entered Canadian airspace and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. The object was shot down approximately 100 miles from the Canada-United States border over Canadian territory in central Yukon," she said.
The object was flying at 40,000 feet, which made it a risk to civilian traffic. That set it apart from the Chinese surveillance balloon, which was traveling "well above commercial air traffic," Ryder said at the time. It did, however, pose a risk to people and property on the ground if it were to be shot down, as officials said it was roughly 200 feet tall and the payload weighed more than a couple of thousand pounds.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner told CNN that the Biden administration does appear "somewhat trigger-happy" in how it dealt with objects over the weekend after allowing the first spotted balloon to fly across the country.
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