{"id":30378,"date":"2023-02-12T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/02\/12\/two-downed-objects-believed-to-be-balloons-sen-schumer-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:18:23","slug":"two-downed-objects-believed-to-be-balloons-sen-schumer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/2023\/02\/12\/two-downed-objects-believed-to-be-balloons-sen-schumer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Downed objects believed to be balloons, Sen. Schumer says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/11\/trudeau-us-warplane-shot-down-object-over-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Canada<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/10\/fighter-aircraft-shoot-down-car-sized-object-near-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a> were balloons, though smaller than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/02\/04\/us-downs-chinese-balloon-a-flashpoint-in-us-china-tensions\/\" target=\"_blank\">China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend<\/a>, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schumer, D-N.Y., told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d that he was briefed on Saturday night by President Joe Biden\u2019s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, after the incident hours earlier over the Yukon. On Friday, an object roughly the size of a small car was downed over remote Alaska, according to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/10\/fighter-aircraft-shoot-down-car-sized-object-near-alaska\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7393555.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Fighter aircraft shoot down car-sized \u2018object\u2019 flying near Alaska<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Officials have not been able to identify what the object is or to whom it belongs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked whether those two recent objects were balloons, Schumer said, \u201cThey believe they were, yes, but much smaller than the first one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/02\/chinese-surveillance-balloon-detected-over-montana\/\" target=\"_blank\">first balloon<\/a> was about the size of three school buses. It was shot down Feb. 4 off the South Carolina coast after it had traversed the United States. The Biden administration said it was used for surveillance. China claims it was on a meteorological research mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schumer said teams were recovering debris from the objects and would work to determine where they came from. The ones downed on Friday and Saturday were smaller and flying at a lower altitudes of about 40,000 feet, within the airspace occupied by commercial flights, compared with about 60,000 feet for the first one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe bottom line is until a few months ago we didn\u2019t know about these balloons,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cIt is wild that we didn\u2019t know. &#8230; Now they are learning a lot more. 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