“They’re in very difficult terrain,” said General Mark Milley,the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s highest ranking military officer.
“The one off the coast of Alaska is up in some really,really difficult terrain in the Arctic Circle with very,very low temperatures in the minus 40s. The second one is in the Canadian Rockies in the Yukon,so it’s very difficult to get that one. And the third one is in Lake Huron,probably at a couple of hundred feet depth.”
The comments came as Biden administration officials visited Capitol Hill on Tuesday (US time) to brief the Senate on the latest developments amid claims the president has not been transparent enough about the series of shoot-downs and the potential national security implications.
The outrage erupted earlier this month,when the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was allowed to float across the country for days,traversing sensitive military sites along the way,before it was finally taken down.
Since then,adjustments to radar settings,following the discovery of theChina spy balloon,helped the US detect the latest series of unidentified flying objects.
Three objects were taken down in as many days:one that was roughly the size of a small car over the coast of Alaska last Friday;a cylindrical shaped object over Canadian skies in central Yukon on Saturday;and an octagon-shaped object over Lake Huron in Michigan near the Canadian border.