Top House Republican Asks if Chinese Balloon Took Off ‘From Wuhan’
The news that an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over parts of the continental United States has sparked a lot of questions. What is it doing? Where is it going? Will the Pentagon allow it to continue…
The news that an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over parts of the continental United States has sparked a lot of questions.
What is it doing? Where is it going? Will the Pentagon allow it to continue floating around the country?
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) raised a few more questions on Fox News on Friday.
Host Harris Faulkner noted the balloon is believed to be about the “size of three buses.”
Comer raised concerns the incident will be “another example of the Biden administration’s weakness on the national scale.”
“We have China clearly playing games with the United States,” he continued. “This balloon never should have been allowed to cross over the pacific coast into the United States — never should have happened. My concern is that the federal government obviously doesn’t know what’s in that balloon. Is that bioweapons in that balloon? Did that balloon take off from Wuhan?”
His question refers to Wuhan, China, where the first cases of COVID-19 were detected.
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Comer went on, “We don’t know anything about that balloon.”
“But the fact that this balloon was slowly making its way to the United States for several days, and this administration never alerted anyone about the possibility of this balloon coming over to the United States is very concerning. It’s very concerning they didn’t shoot it out of the air before it even reached the continental United States,” he added.
Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder revealed