The U.S. military is tracking another high-altitude balloon that crossed over the Hawaii coast and is now heading toward Mexico, the Department of Defense has confirmed.
Using “newly-established parameters for monitoring U.S. airspace,” the Department of Defense first detected the balloon on April 28 off the coast of Hawaii floating at approximately 36,000 feet, a department spokesperson told The Epoch Times on May 1.
The balloon is unmanned and its ownership remains unknown. But the spokesperson said there’s “no indication that it was maneuvering or being controlled by a foreign or adversarial actor.”
“The balloon did not transit directly over defense critical infrastructure or other U.S. Government sensitive sites, nor did it pose a military or physical threat to people on the ground,” the spokesperson said, adding that despite it flying in the range of commercial aircraft, the balloon “posed no threat to civil aviation over Hawaii.”
These observations have led Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to agree with his military commanders that “no action need be taken against the balloon,” according to the spokesperson.
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