Searches for two of the unidentified objects which were recently shot down by the U.S. military have been concluded with no sign of debris from either, federal officials announced on Friday.
U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said in athat"no debris from airborne objects" was found following multiday"systematic searches" involving"airborne imagery and sensors, surface sensors and inspections, and subsurface scans."
The two objects were shot down by the U.S. military near Deadhorse, Alaska, on Feb. 10, and over Lake Huron on Feb. 12. Multiple federal and Canadian agencies were involved in both searches.an unidentified object over the Yukon in Canada. The search for that object appears to be ongoing. — part of a larger Chinese surveillance program, according to the Pentagon — was shot down Feb. 4 off the coast of South Carolina after traveling across the U.S. mainland.
"Nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from ... any other country," Mr. Biden said."The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were mostly balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.
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