According to a source, the United States has terminated its hunt for two unidentified objects shot down by the military last week after workers found nothing.
US authorities were hunting for fragments of the unidentified flying objects shot down by US fighter planes over Lake Huron and a remote area of Alaska on Sunday and Friday, respectively.
Nevertheless, a U.S. official told the New York Times on Friday that the weather made it impossible to continue the search.
The official stated that Canadian officials will continue their efforts to find the third object shot down over the Yukon last Saturday.
On the penultimate day of the search, military pilots conducted ice-penetrating radar over a region 20 miles off the northern coast of Alaska without discovering any wreckage. According to the official, the downed item is thought to be roughly the size of a VW Beetle.
John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council of the White House, told reporters on Friday that the US government may never fully know what the three objects were that were shot down over North America.
“We must all accept the possibility that we may not be able to recover” the debris, added Kirby.
President Biden stated on Thursday that there is no proof that the three UFOs belonged to China or were surveillance craft from another nation, but he also conceded, “We do not yet know what these three objects were.”
Biden, 80, continued, “According to the current assessment of the intelligence community, these three objects are most likely balloons attached to private companies, recreational or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”
The three shootdowns occurred after a purportedly Chinese spy balloon was permitted to hover over vital US military locations and drift across the US for days before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4.
The final piece of wreckage from the Chinese balloon has been collected from the Atlantic Ocean and is on its way to an FBI laboratory in Virginia for processing, according to a statement released by the U.S. military’s Northern Command on Friday.
“It’s a substantial amount [of recovered material], including the payload structure as well as some of the electronics and optics,” Kirby said on Friday. “Everything is now at the FBI laboratory in Quantico.”
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