America Nationwide Safety Council spokesperson, John Kirby, stated in a press convention on Sunday that China has "a high-altitude balloon programme for intelligence assortment linked to the Individuals's Liberation Military".
Kirby didn't, nonetheless, disclose the origin or objective of the three newest aerial units shot down over America over the weekend and stated it's important to make a distinction between the 'spy balloon', and the next units, which have been smaller and didn't have propulsion techniques.
The White Home did put rumours to mattress of alien involvement, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre clarifying that there isn't a proof of aliens or extraterrestrial exercise within the look of a number of UFOs; a joke for some, however not for others.
The connection between the USA and China has develop into more and more strained because the first sighting of a 61-metre-high balloon flying over Montana earlier this month.
China claimed that the balloon shot down on the 4th of February was engaged in meteorological analysis.
Kirby was cautious to not disclose particulars, however stated the aerial units posed a "very actual" danger to civilian air visitors, given the altitude at which they have been flying, and that President Biden, subsequently, directed the army to take them down "out of an abundance of warning".
Earlier on Sunday, Beijing claimed that the US had been flying balloons in its airspace during the last 12 months, which the White Home denied.