Three objects shot down were private, recreational research balloons | USA TODAY

President Joe Biden announced three objects shot down by aircraft were not Chinese surveillance balloons.

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There’s no indication the three unidentified objects shot down over Alaska, the Yukon Territory and Lake Huron were part of China’s spy balloon program, White House officials say, even though they were shot down about a week after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the Atlantic coast. The Pentagon has ruled out the possibility that the objects were from the U.S. government.

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