Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he wasn’t aware of the Chinese spy balloon programme until now.
“I don’t recall a balloon discussion,” he told ABC’s RN Breakfast on Tuesday, “This is new to me as it is to most people.”
He added this revelation is concerning and that it’s “puzzling” that the balloons have gone undetected despite their enormous size.
“So these are big things, and it is bizarre that if they had been, in fact, flying around the world, they haven’t been picked up and noticed and brought down before.”
The comment comes days after the United States shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4. Another three more unidentified flying objects, two in U.S. airspace and one in Canadian airspace. were also shot down….