USA: We do not know the origin of three fallen objects

The American government said it does not think the objects were surveillance devices, although it also leaves open the possibility that they might have been.

They had no driving tools”, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House. “weren't maneuvering. They had no surveillance capacity, but we can't rule out this option”.

“We find ourselves in a sort of unex1nded terrain, said Mr. Kirby.

He said the parts of the three objects fell into the remote, difficult-to-attack <x0).

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said American personnel have not yet collected the parts of three hit and crashed objects.

Secretary Austin told reporters Monday in Brussels, when he is expected to meet with NATO defence ministers this week, that the weather has made efforts in Alaska difficult, while the difficult terrain in Canada is affecting research there.

He said the priority for the Pentagon is “taking the remaining parts in order to have a better understanding of what these objects are.”

Mr. Kirby refused to use the term “balona”.

"We don't know who they belong to, " he said, unlike Chinese spy balloons that the United States struck and knocked over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina, after spending eight days on American territory. China continues to claim that the balloon was a weather monitoring tool that was out of control and had strayed from the course. But American officials say that the ocean floor parts indicate that the balloon was doing a surveillance mission.

Mr. Kirby said that President Joe Beden “made a top priority of” establishing the belonging and origin of three items that were dropped by American pilots, according to orders given by him, or in the case of an object that fell on Yukon, in consultation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Mr. Kirby said the three objects were hit and knocked down after they were a very real threat to civilian aviation; objects near Alaska and on Yukon territory flew some 12,000 feet from the ground, while the one on Lake Huron was at half that altitude.

After the discovery of Chinese balloons, Mr. Kirby said that American radar has already been recaliberated to keep more objects in focus.

“One of the reasons we're looking at more is because we're looking for more”, he said.

Earlier, Mr. Kirby strongly rejected the charge Monday from Beijing that the United States has sent over 10 balloons of high altitudes over China, while the two countries continue to object to the collapse of the Chinese balloon by the American coast.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin claimed during an information session “that it is also common for American balloons to illegally enter other countries' airspace. Since last year, U.S. balloons have flown illegally over ten times at high altitudes in China's airspace without the approval of Chinese authorities”.

He said the United States must first reflect on itself and change courses, instead of slandering and promoting a” confrontation.

False “. We don't do this. Just absolutely not true”, Mr. Kirby told the MSNBC Channel. We don't send balloons over China”.

Both countries use spy satellites, but after Mr. Wang accused the United States of sending balloons over China, he gave no further details about how he dealt with them, or whether they were related to the American government.

The United States announced on Monday that they have spotted Chinese balloons flying even over the Middle East. But, Lieutenant General Alexandrus Grinkewich, commander of the American Air Force at Central Command, said that “has not been a threat. They've been flying a few times since I was commander, but it wasn't something to worry about.”

China has accused the United States of acting excessively when it struck and knocked down the balloon that crossed American territory before it came above ocean waters.