NORAD is monitoring more objects that could be additional spy balloons: sources
Asked why Canada didn’t intercept the first balloon when it passed through Canadian airspace, Anand told reporters that the government had monitored the craft and “determined that it posed no imminent risk to Canadians at all.”
“We were watching it very carefully to ensure we were doing what is necessary to protect Canadians, and we’re doing that in the context of the NORAD relationship, of course,” Anand said at a press conference with her U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in Washington on Friday.“When the United States made that decision to shoot it down, Secretary Austin did thank Canada because we were making these decisions jointly about imminent threats.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said his government has briefed dozens of countries about the Chinese balloon program. Beijing maintains the balloon shot down over the continental U.S. last week was civilian, conducting meteorological research — a claim the U.S. rejects. The U.S. began collecting pieces of the downed Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast on Tuesday and will examine the craft’s payload to better understand what it was surveilling. Parts of the craft have already begun arriving at the FBI’s Quantico, Virginia headquarters.
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