Schumer Says U.S. Officials Believe UFOs Shot Down Over Alaska And Canada Were Balloons

Officials in the United States believe that the flying objects are not identified (UFO) spotted over the United States and Canada over the past couple days are balloons, the Senate’s top Democrat said Sunday morning.

Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos he discussed the situation with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday night.

“They believe they were, yes,” Schumer spoke to the anchor “This Week” When asked to confirm that the objects seen over Canada and Alaska were balloons, he replied:

“I think the Chinese were humiliated. I think the Chinese were caught lying, and it’s a real step back for them…they look really bad,” Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, says a href=”https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@GStephanopoulos About the Chinese balloon surveillance programme. https://t.co/eS3P8M0epS pic.twitter.com/GrR27nUY3d

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Schumer stated that these objects were “much smaller” The balloon crashed off the coast South Carolina, at an altitude around 40,000 feet. This poses a risk to commercial aircraft.

Schumer indicated that U.S. military personnel and intelligence officials are now focusing on the acquisition and accumulation of information as they continue to salvage operations. A “comprehensive analysis” The senator stated that they will.

Schumer claimed that these flying objects were only discovered by the United States recently. “Until a few months ago we didn’t know about these balloons,” He said.

A second UFO may have been seen in Montana on Saturday.

North American Aerospace Defense Command, (NORAD), detected what it called “a” “radar anomaly,” This led to a temporary flight restriction in the central part the state. However, a fighter plane was sent to investigate. “did not identify any object to correlate” NORAD was notified of the radar hits, and the restriction was lifted.

The UFO shot off the coast of South Carolina last weekend is the only UFO the U.S. military publicly identified.

That vessel, the U.S. officials say, was a Chinese spy balloon that flew at a high altitude — away from commercial aircraft — across a wide swath of the United States. China claims that the airship was actually a weather balloon that was lost.

China’s state-run newspaper Sunday claimed that Chinese authorities witnessed a UFO near a port town. “Local maritime authorities in East China’s Shandong Province announced on Sunday that they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Rizhao in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe via messages,” Tweet From the Global Times.

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