Biden administration officials on Monday defended their decisions to shoot down three unidentified flying objects over the U.S. and Canada, even as they acknowledged they knew little about what they were destroying
WASHINGTON—Biden administration officials defended on Monday their decisions to shoot down unidentified flying objects over North America this weekend and disputed new claims by Beijing that the U.S. violated Chinese airspace with high-altitude balloons.
Chinese officials – who were angered by the U.S. takedown of its suspected spy balloon off the Atlantic coast earlier this month – said that the U.S. had flown high-altitude balloons through its airspace more than 10 times since the start of 2022, fueling an escalating
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