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- Three mysterious objects were shot down by the US military in North American airspace last weekend.
- President Biden said nothing suggests these objects were related to any surveillance programs.
- The three unidentified objects are "most likely" just civilian objects, he said on Thursday.
President Joe Biden on Thursday said no evidence suggests that the three unidentified objects shot down by US fighter jets in recent days are related to any country's surveillance program and were "most likely" civilian objects.
"We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were," Biden said in long-awaited remarks. "The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research."