On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added six Chinese entities to its Entity List for their contribution to components.
waiting for them to actually get to the sites and actually recover some of these three unidentified objects that were shot down in very quick succession. so we don t know, as you said, mika, who sent the balloons or if it was a nation at all. they could have been civilian research balloons with no nefarious intent at all. those are the questions we ve been asking here. what we do know is the very first balloon that kicked this off a week and a half ago was a chinese, high-altitude surveillance balloon. in the aftermath of the u.s. shooting that down off the southeast coast of the u.s., these three additional balloons came on. they have very different characteristics. in fact, we re not even calling them balloons. they are unidentified objects. that s because they re much smaller. they were flying at lower altitudes. they were not asthma nooufrs, every one of them, as we saw the chinese high altitude balloon. again, we don t know exactly what they were doing or who they belonged to. tho
Residents and media outlets were shocked to see a U.S. Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) come ashore on a public beach in Cherry Grove, South Carolina Thursday morning.