Washington (EFE).- The US believes that the three flying objects that it shot down in recent days are not linked to China and could be completely harmless entities used for commercial or research purposes, said Tuesday John Kirby, one of White House spokesmen.
Kirby, however, pointed out that this information is provisional and that the United States continues to search for the remains of these three objects to analyze them and have a better idea of their nature.
“For now, and I am advising that it is only for now, we have not seen any indications or anything that points to the specific possibility that these three objects are part of the spy program of the People’s Republic of China, or that they have been involved in some type of intelligence gathering,” he said in a call with journalists.
Kirby revealed that US intelligence is considering the possibility that the objects are linked to commercial or investigative entities and that they are “totally benign.”
US and China point fingers at each other
On February 4, the United States shot down a Chinese “spy” balloon over Atlantic waters off the coast of South Carolina, and in the last three days it has shot down three other flying objects in its territory and Canada, of which at the moment He has not been able to confirm its origin.
After the incident of the Chinese “spy” balloon, the Government of Joe Biden accused the Chinese Executive of having developed, with the involvement of its Armed Forces, a “program” of spy balloons, which have already flown over more than 40 countries in five continents.
For its part, the Chinese government assured that the first object shot down was a weather balloon that deviated from its trajectory and has denounced that at least ten US balloons have flown over China in the last year, something the US denies.