The U.S. military spent $1.6 million to $2 million last month to shoot down three unidentified, high-altitude objects over North America, the Air Force said Monday.
Not included in the $2 million total are the cost of the flights to find and shoot down the objects or the cost of the search efforts to recover debris from the objects. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search efforts in Lake Huron on Feb. 15 amid poor weather and did not immediately have a cost estimate for the search available Monday. Officials have said no debris was recovered.
The White House last month was pressed on whether the military shoot downs were an “overreaction” amid reports that an Illinois hobby club was missing its weather balloon. President Joe Biden defended his administration’s handling of the three high-altitude objects following the downing of a much larger Chinese surveillance balloon on Feb. 4 off the coast of South Carolina.
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