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Japan warned this Wednesday, February 15, China that any violation of airspace with “spy balloons” is unacceptable. The Ministry of Defense advances that a new analysis of unidentified flying objects, in Japanese airspace, carried out in recent years, indicates that they were Chinese “spy balloons”.
The statements of the Japanese Ministry of Defense leave no doubt, a recent analysis made of unidentified flying objects in the skies of Japan reveals that they were Chinese “spy balloons”.
“After an in-depth analysis of previously identified balloon-shaped flying objects in Japanese airspace, including those from November 2019, June 2020 and September 2021, we assume that these are reconnaissance balloons, unmanned aircraft sent by the China”the ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday.
The Japanese authorities asked the Chinese government to confirm the facts and reiterated the importance of this situation not happening again, as it is unacceptable.
“Violations of airspace by foreign unmanned reconnaissance balloons and other means are totally unacceptable”insisted the Ministry of Defense.
Japan also announced that it intends to change the law on the presence of flying objects in the airspace, in order to be able to destroy them more easily.
According to the Kyodo news agency, the law currently provides for the destruction of these objects only when they represent a direct and immediate threat.
At the beginning of the month, the United States shot down a Chinese “spy balloon” that had been flying over several areas of the country for days, such as the state of Montana, in the northeast, where one of the three fields of nuclear missile silos in the territory is located. North American.
At the time, China admitted that the balloon belonged to it., justifying that it was an object for meteorological purposes, which had lost its route due to strong winds, denying that it was an episode of espionage.
The United States also announced that it had detected another “spy balloon” over Latin America., which the Chinese government also admitted, while continuing to maintain that the airship did not pose “any threat”.
On Friday, the US shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Alaska and on Saturday another that was flying over Lake Huro, in the State of Michigan. A day later, Canada announced that it had shot down a similar object off the coast of Alaska.
However, China accused the US of also making use of this technology, claiming that, since the beginning of the year alone, it has identified ten balloons in its own airspace. Beijing’s statements have already been rejected by Washington.