The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said Monday that recent balloon incidents are part of a pattern suggesting that the Chinese regime and Russia are increasing surveillance of U.S. territory.
“What we saw over the United States is part of a pattern where China and also Russia are increasing surveillance activities on NATO allies,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Monday.
Earlier this month, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon traveled over much of the United States before it was shot down by a fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (Feb. 10, 11, and 12), U.S. military jets downed three objects over North America: one was shot down in northern Alaska, one in Canada’s Yukon Territory, and one was shot down near Lake Huron, Michigan.
In Sunday’s incident over Lake Huron, U.S. military fighter jets downed an object that was described as “octagonal” in shape, according to Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) and alleged unnamed U.S. officials. Few details have been provided about that object, and the Pentagon has not directly responded to The Epoch Times’ questions about the shape of the Lake Huron object.
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