A huge white balloon was seen northeast of Hawaii, according to US air traffic control and BNO News, just a week after various unidentified flying objects were shot down on US soil.
Unidentified flying objects shot down in the United States
John Kirby, spokesman for the United States Department of Defense, had explained last Monday that the objects shot down in US territory, whose origin is unknown, lacked propulsion systems and moved unpredictably with the wind.
He also justified their demolition by considering them a potential threat to civil air traffic, since they would have flown at a height similar to that of many planes. Additionally, he had to clarify that it would not be any “extraterrestrial activity”.
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Earlier this month, a balloon of Chinese origin had entered the United States, where it flew over several states until it was shot down near South Carolina. According to the US government, it was a spy balloon.
For his part, the head of Chinese diplomacy, Wang Yi, described Washington’s reaction as “absurd and hysterical”, and his country even claimed that it was a meteorological research balloon that had entered that area by mistake.
However, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, told Yi that this incident “must not happen again”, and even warned him of the “implications and consequences” of providing “material support” to Russia in its war. against Ukraine, all this according to a State Department spokesman.