{"id":20685,"date":"2023-02-15T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20685"},"modified":"2023-02-15T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:58:24","slug":"three-objects-shot-down-after-chinese-spy-balloon-may-be-benign-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=20685","title":{"rendered":"Three objects shot down after Chinese spy balloon may be <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">benign,<\/span> White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/14\/flying-objects-shot-down-balloons-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">Three unidentified objects shot down by US fighter jets since Friday may turn out to be balloons connected to \u201cbenign\u201d commercial or research efforts, a White House official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">The US has not found any evidence to connect the objects to China\u2019s balloon surveillance program nor to any other country\u2019s spy program, national security council spokesperson, John Kirby,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/ufo-balloons-flying-objects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the [People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s] spying program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">Instead, a \u201cleading explanation\u201d may be that the objects were operated privately for commercial or research purposes, Kirby said, though no one has stepped forward to claim ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">The unidentified object shot down by a US fighter jet over northern Canada on Saturday was a \u201csmall, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it\u201d, according to a Pentagon memo to US lawmakers obtained by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/13\/politics\/pentagon-memo-canada-small-balloon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Three unidentified objects shot down by US fighter jets since Friday may turn out to be balloons connected to \u201cbenign\u201d commercial or research efforts, a White House official said on Tuesday. The US has not found any evidence to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=20685\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}