The US considers that the last objects shot down have commercial or scientific purposes

MADRID, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United States Government is considering the possibility that the last three objects shot down over its airspace belong to the commercial or scientific field, leaving the hypothesis of its Chinese origin in the background.

The White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, has detailed to the press that the intelligence services are considering as an explanation that the objects identified in US airspace are linked to commercial or research entities, and that they are of a benign nature. .

"It is something that the intelligence community is investigating," Jean-Pierre said, stressing the importance of obtaining the remains of the objects to analyze them -- a difficult activity in recent days, since some of the objects would have fallen in areas difficult to access, according to the spokeswoman.

Previously, the national security spokesman for the US Presidency, John Kirby, initially separated Beijing from the last three targets, short of analyzing the remains of the artifacts. "It cannot be said definitively," he clarified, reiterating the importance of finding the remains.

Determining the origin of the objects and their mission depends on these investigations, since Washington did identify a first balloon shot down over the Atlantic Ocean after crossing the entire continent as Chinese. Beijing confirmed that it was his, but claimed that it was only for scientific purposes and not for espionage.

The Government of China, on the other hand, has returned the accusations and has assured that balloons from the United States have violated the airspace of the Asian giant on more than a dozen occasions in the last year, an extreme that the North American authorities have flatly denied. .