The US has no indication that the latest objects shot down are from China or have espionage purposes

MADRID, 14 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The White House has clarified this Tuesday that there is "no indication" that the three flying objects shot down last weekend in the United States and Canada had Chinese origin or were intended to gather intelligence information, in contrast to the case of the first balloon.

The spokesman for national security of the US Presidency, John Kirby, has in principle disassociated Beijing from these last objectives, in the absence of analyzing the remains of the artifacts. "It cannot be said definitively", he has clarified in statements to the media.

Precisely this task of collecting remains seems complicated, since some of them would have fallen in areas of difficult access. However, Kirby has preferred not to speculate on the possibility that they will never recover and has defended that the authorities are doing "everything they can" to locate them.

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. .