The Biden administration is still trying to figure out what the three most recent objects were that the president ordered to be shot out of the sky, at a cost of over $400,000 per missile fired.
On Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters that the Pentagon has not been able to “definitively assess” what the objects were. He said the reason they were shot down was out of “an abundance of caution.”
On Tuesday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirmed to reporters that the intelligence community’s “leading explanation” is that it could just be balloons tied to “some commercial or benign purpose.”
Kirby also said, “We don’t see anything that points right now to this, to these being part of the [People’s Republic of China] surveillance program or in fact, intelligence collection against the United States of any kind.”
He also confirmed a report by Fox News that the first missile fired at the object over Lake Huron on Sunday…
