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US may not be able to recover the balloon remains
At Friday's White House press briefing, Kirby raised the possibility that the U.S. may be unable to recover the remains of the three most recent balloons in light of difficulties from searching near the locations where they were shot down.
When asked if the American public would "eventually find out what these unidentified objects are, including which companies they belong to and which specific benign purposes they had," Kirby assured reporters that "we would like nothing better." He outlined how the terrain in the locations where they came down may make it more challenging to obtain the remains.
"And just to remind you, one is on sea ice in the north of Alaska in arctic conditions," he noted. "Extremely bad winter weather up there. They have not been able to really mount anything on the ice to find them now."
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Kirby said, "the other is in the Yukon Territory."
"Thick wilderness. And as of today, I don't believe the Royal Canadian — Canadian Mounted Police or their investigative organizations have been able to get to it," he said.
"And then the other one fell over Lake Huron, again, in very deep water. I think the Canadians have decided that they're not going to look for it anymore. I don't believe the United States has made a call on that yet. So, pretty tough conditions. Going to be very difficult to find them, let alone, once you find that debris, be able to do the forensics to identify it. So I can't promise you that we'll know definitively one way or the other."
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
