'It's very early for us in this process, and the evidence that has been recovered and brought to the FBI is extremely limited,' an official said. Most of the debris is still underwater as of Thursday, according to FBI officials who briefed reporters on the recovery.
It was first detected crossing US territory on January 28, briefly passing over Canada, then traversing several states in the continental US before it was brought down on February 4.īiden gave the order to shoot it down on Wednesday last week but Defense officials cautioned that it would be safer to do so when the falling debris no longer posed a risk to Americans on the ground. US intelligence links the program directly to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), China's principal military force.Īir Force jets shot down the balloon, which kicked off public furor over Beijing's spying tactics, on Saturday. The President has faced questions from Republicans over why the balloon was allowed to traverse the United States and some of its military bases for days before it was downed off the coast of South Carolina. In this image provided by the FBI, special agents assigned to the evidence response team process material recovered from the high altitude balloon recovered off the coast of South Carolina
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