As new high-altitude objects are shot down over North America, lawmakers say they need more information

American F-22 combatant jets person changeable down 3 high-altitude objects successful the airspace supra the U.S. and Canada successful the past week, and members of Congress said Sunday that they person not been briefed astir the 2 latest incidents.

On Feb. 4, the U.S. subject changeable down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been transiting crossed the state for respective days. The White House announced a second entity had been changeable down connected Friday that was flying implicit Alaska astatine astir 40,000 feet. The pursuing day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that helium worked with President Joe Biden to bid a U.S. combatant pitchy to sprout down an "unidentified object" that was flying implicit the Yukon.

Officials person yet to merchandise details astir the objects that were downed connected Friday and Saturday.

Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said helium is unaware of what the 2 latest objects are, and that members of Congress did not person ceremonial briefings astir them from the Biden administration.

"This could beryllium due to the fact that they don't person immoderate information," Turner told CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "From the property league we saw, it does look similar they took this enactment without a existent knowing for what they were going after."

He said determination needs to beryllium much engagement betwixt the Biden medication and Congress, and that the events of the past week suggest the U.S. needs to bash a amended occupation actively defending American airspace.

Turner was captious of the Biden medication for waiting respective days to instrumentality down the suspected Chinese spy balloon, truthful helium said helium "would similar them to beryllium trigger blessed than to beryllium permissive."

In a statement Saturday, Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Canadian authorities are conducting betterment operations to assistance some countries larn much astir the quality of the entity downed successful Canada.

On Friday, White House spokesperson John Kirby hesitated to qualify the craft implicit Alaska arsenic a balloon, saying "we're calling this an entity due to the fact that that's the champion statement we person close now." He besides said U.S. officials did not yet cognize which federation oregon radical was liable for it.

Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., said members of Congress were fixed a top-secret briefing astir the Chinese spy balloon, but that members person not been straight briefed astir the 2nd oregon 3rd incidents. He said helium suspects that since the objects were downed successful distant areas, determination is not a batch of accusation to stock yet.

"I person existent concerns astir wherefore the medication has not been much forthcoming with everything that it knows," Himes told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.

Himes said determination is "a batch of garbage" successful the air, and that it is not hard for countries, companies oregon adjacent individuals with resources to get objects into the sky.

"My speculative conjecture arsenic to wherefore we're seeing these things hap successful speedy succession is that present we're truly attuned to looking for them," helium said.

He urged Americans to defy assuming that determination has been an alien penetration oregon foul play by different federation until much accusation tin beryllium released. Himes said that successful the lack of information, people's anxiousness tin pb them into "potentially destructive areas."