Crisis What do we know about the mysterious objects shot down by the US
New script twist in the last film of the new
Cold War
.
After four "flying objects" were shot down by the
United States
in the last nine days, it is now
China
that says it has a UFO - without the alien connotation of the acronym - near its east coast.
The new "unidentified flying object", as defined on Sunday night by the Qingdao Marine Development Office, in Shandong province
,
would be caressing the
Bohai Sea
and the Chinese authorities would have prepared to shoot it down.
That is what the statement that the office sent to the fishing boats so that they were on alert pointed out.
"If debris falls around your boat, please help take pictures as evidence. Conditions permitting, help salvage the wreckage," the message read.
American spy balloon?
On
, the Chinese brother of Twitter, many users took the news with this derision when they read it in some national media as soon as they got up on Monday.
Newspapers like the Hong Kong South China Morning Post also pointed out that the sighting coincides with military maneuvers that the Chinese army is carrying out these days around the area that connects the Bohai Sea and the northern part of
the Yellow Sea
.
"US high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China's airspace more than 10 times since last year,"
Wang Wenbin
, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told a news conference on Monday.
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The mystery of the "unidentified flying object" shot down by the US
Writing: PABLO PARDO (Correspondent) Washington
The mystery of the "unidentified flying object" shot down by the US
Controversy.
The US shoots down a new object as the crisis with China escalates
Writing: PABLO SCARPELLINILos Angeles
The US shoots down a new object as the crisis with China escalates
which began with the huge Chinese spy balloon that flew over the US and was shot down on February 4 by an F-22 plane off the coast of
South Carolina
.
Beijing acknowledged that the balloon was its own, but insisted it was simply a "civilian unmanned aircraft" that functioned as a weather analysis device.
A few days later, China also acknowledged ownership of the second balloon flying over
Latin America
, even apologizing to the
Costa Rican
authorities .
When it looked like the skies were going to be clear, on Friday, February 10, US warplanes shot down a "flying object", devoid of any propulsion or control system, off northern Alaska.
A day later, an American F-22, following orders from Washington and Ottawa, shot down a cylindrical "high-altitude airborne object" overflying Canadian soil in the central
Yukon Territory
, 160 kilometers from the US border.
On Sunday, President
Joe Biden
again gave the green light to destroy another "unidentified object" - this one described as an octagonal structure from which ropes hung - over
Lake Huron
,
Michigan
.
Just before the latest incident, US Senate Majority Leader
Charles Schumer
claimed that the two previous objects, which both flew at about 40,000 feet, were probably also balloons, but much smaller than the first, which he said the State Department, was equipped with multiple antennas capable of conducting "intelligence gathering operations."
Secretary of State
Antony Blinken
, who canceled his trip to Beijing hours before his flight was due to take off over the spy balloon crisis, noted last week that the first balloon downed would be part of a larger spy fleet spanning the globe. .
Chinese foreign spokesman Wang Wenbin addressed the latest three flying objects shot down in North America on Monday, calling suggestions that they could also be China's spy balloons "smears."
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