Today's highlights
It has been a big day for North America’s skies. Here are some of the top lines from land and air:
The object that was shot down in Canadian airspace was a “small metallic balloon” the size of a small car and had a payload attached to it – and it was not the same white Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down earlier this month in South Carolina.
The White House’s office of national intelligence will brief John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, on the UFOs this coming Wednesday.
In the Senate, top Republican Mitch McConnell is criticizing the Biden administration for not being transparent about what US fighter jets encountered in the skies over the United States and Canada:
China says the United States also spies on it with balloons, which Washington forcefully rejected.
House speaker Kevin McCarthy has called for the resignation of architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton, who heads the agency responsible for the building’s maintenance and preservation:
That is all for the Guardian’s live blog today, have a good night. We will be back with more tomorrow.
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The object that was shot down in Canadian airspace was a “small metallic balloon” that was the size of a small car and had a payload attached to it – and it was not the same white Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down earlier this month in South Carolina, a White House memo obtained by CNN said.
The high-altitude unidentified object, originally described as an “octagonal structure” with strings attached to it, was shot down on Sunday afternoon near Canada’s Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron.
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