US, Canada Call Off Searches For Remaining Downed Balloons

The U.S. and Canada have called off searches for the three remaining downed aerial objects.

The Details: The U.S. and Canada have suspended recovery operations aimed at locating the objects shot down over Alaska, Yukon, and Lake Huron. They were unable to recover any of the remains.

For Context: On Thursday, the U.S. finished recovering remains of the Chinese Spy Balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina. Those remains are to be examined by the FBI. The Biden Administration believes the following three downed objects were most likely civilian-owned. 

Key Quotes: "We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were," President Joe Biden said on Thursday, "but nothing right now suggests they're related to China's spy balloon program, or they were surveillance vehicles from any other country." The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, speaking of the object downed in Yukon, said "the current belief (is) the object is not tied to a scenario that justifies extraordinary search efforts."

How The Media Covered It: The events have been covered similarly across the political spectrum. Fox News (Right Bias) host Laura Ingraham suggests Americans should question the Biden Administration’s assessment of the unrecovered objects.