A group of fishermen have discovered the wreckage of a possible βspy balloonβ off the coast of Alaska and it has become the subject of an FBI investigation, CNN reported on Friday. The shooting down last year of an alleged Chinese spy balloon by the US triggered a major diplomatic incident between Washington and Beijing.
The fishermen brought the suspicious debris onto their boat and will hand it over to FBI agents when they return to port this weekend, the network reported, citing anonymous βsources familiar with the matter.β
Based on photographs shared with them by the crew, FBI agents determined that it wasΒ βsimilar enough in appearance to a foreign-government owned surveillance balloon that it warranted further investigation,βΒ CNN stated.
