The Indian defence forces had witnessed, over a 12 months in the past, objects just like the alleged Chinese spy balloon busted by the American Air Force in the skies over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands territories. However, not like the Americans, no motion was taken because the origin and the intent or origin of the balloon-type object weren’t clear.
“Quite some time back, we had witnessed the balloon-type white object over the Andamans and high-resolution pics of the object were taken by our people from ground,” defence officers instructed media.Â
However, the intent or the origin of the balloon-type object was not clear. It was additionally not clear whether or not it had come from Myanmar or China however it moved away from there after three to 4 days, they stated. At that point, it was additionally felt that it may have been a meteorological balloon as many such balloons come over India from the Pakistan facet too resulting from winds, they stated.
The officers stated that if such an object seems once more over the Andamans or every other area, it might be studied rigorously and whether it is discovered to be a spying object, it may be introduced down.
The Americans spotted many of those balloons over their skies which had come there evading a number of American chains of radars. The Americans downed one of many balloons utilizing their F-22 Raptor fighter jets.
(With ANI inputs)Â
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