President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the object shot down over Lake Huron was likely not part of the Chinese spy balloon project. Instead, he said it was likely a private research balloon.
By Wednesday, U.S. officials said they were still working to locate the wreckage from the objects, but that they expected all three to be unrelated to surveillance efforts.
Biden said when he came into office, he instructed the intelligence community to better keep track of flying objects but said they're typically research objects that are in the sky. as it flew over sensitive military sites in the United States. It was believed by American intelligence to have initially been on a track toward the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a U.S. official.
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