The White House says the intelligence community is 'considering as a leading explanation' that the three objects shot down over the weekend 'could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose.'
John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White House, Feb. 13, 2023.White House spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday the intelligence community is "considering as a leading explanation" that the three objects shot down over the weekend "could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose.
"We're calling them objects because that's the best description we have right now," Kirby told ABC's George Stephanopoulos Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."Kirby said the objects fell in "pretty remote locations" and "it could take us a while to reach the debris, yet alone collect it and analyze it."
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin participates in a news conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley, on the day of the NATO defense ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 14, 2023.The defense secretary said the first missile strike to down the object over Lake Huron on Sunday missed.
As for where the objects came from, or what they are, Kirby had few new details as he appeared on GMA, though he reiterated that they didn't have any maneuvering capabilities and were "much smaller" than the Chinese spy balloon. "We walked out of a meeting like this, and so much of what we've been told is classified ... but the president can get in front of America and tell them firsthand that we're safe, that everybody's going to be okay, that we've got this under control, but America needs a strong leader to step forward," Marshall said.
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