The balloon crisis is accentuated with China

• The mystery of the "unidentified flying object" shot down by the US

The diplomatic crisis with China dragged on over the weekend after the downing of two other objects that the United States now believes are also balloons.

This was stated on Sunday by the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate,

, after being informed by the team of President

and his National Security adviser,

, while they continue to investigate the true intentions of the Chinese and the repercussions that may have the incident in the relations between the two super powers.

"They think they were, yes

," Schumer said on ABC when asked if the objects shot down by US jets on Friday and Saturday were balloons like the first one discovered over US skies a week ago.

That one was shot down on February 4 kilometers off the coast of South Carolina, a large object after having flown over part of the country.

The New York senator explained that the one on Friday that was shot down in Alaska

, which was equivalent to three school buses and is already being analyzed by specialized personnel in the US.

China has assured that the balloon that initially caused the tensions had a strictly meteorological use, something that the Americans have questioned.

, well above the two detected on Friday and Saturday.

"The bottom line is that until a few months ago we didn't know anything about these balloons

," Schumer said.

"It's crazy that we didn't know... They're learning so much more now. And the military and intelligence are laser-focused first on collecting and accumulating the information, and then doing a thorough analysis."

Both Biden and Canadian Prime Minister

have assured that they are trying to identify the functions of the last two objects located.

The one on Saturday was violating Canadian airspace, according to Trudeau himself.

He explained that an F-22 fighter operated jointly by both nations took charge of the device that was flying over Yukon, a northwestern province of Canada and the border with Alaska, one of the least populated territories in the North American country.

It has almost half a million square kilometers -slightly less than Spain- and the same inhabitants as Langreo, in Asturias.

Trudeau noted that he had spoken with Biden on Saturday and that

," he wrote on his Twitter account.

For the White House it is essential to recover the balloon "to determine its purpose and origin."

It is, without a doubt, an atypical situation that is already having consequences of a diplomatic nature.

The Secretary of State,

, canceled a trip to China that he had planned while in the Asian giant they defend themselves against the accusations.

Beijing has indicated that another balloon detected last weekend flying over Central and South America was fulfilling the same task: meteorological research.

However, US intelligence agencies have determined that China's spy balloon program is part of a global surveillance effort designed to

of countries around the world, according to three US officials.

His interest in US military bases is especially notorious.

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