Alaskan fishermen found what US officials will investigate as a potential spy balloon.
The commercial fishing vessel will bring the questionable object to shore sometime this weekend, three sources told CNN Friday.
The FBI will meet the ship when it arrives in port and take the unknown object to the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., the outlet reported.
While the sources stressed to CNN that they do not know what the object is, the FBI said it resembles surveillance balloons used by foreign nations enough to look into further.
“The FBI is aware of debris found off the coast of Alaska by a commercial fishing vessel,” the agency told The Post Friday night.
“We will work with our partners to assist with the logistics of the debris recovery.”
The North American Aerospace Defense Command did not say if it knew of anything that had gone down in the region in recent days or weeks when reached by The Post.
Friday’s latest balloon scare comes a week after a mysterious high-altitude balloon was tracked by US agencies and later determined to be a hobbyist’s device.
The small balloon, flying at an altitude between 43,000 and 45,000 feet, was intercepted by NORAD fighter jets shortly as it hovered over Utah. Officials determined it “posed no hazard to flight safety” and it later drifted out of American airspace.
Just over a year ago, the US Air Force shot a Chinese spy balloon out of the sky over South Carolina after it floated across the country over several days, making national headlines and sparking national security fears.
The 200-foot-tall craft made multiple passes over key US military installations before it was shot down.
President Biden described the Chinese balloon’s payload as “two boxcars full of spy equipment” and faced intense criticism from Republicans, who argued that it should’ve been brought down sooner.
China maintained that the balloon was a civilian meteorological craft that strayed off course.
However, a year after it was shot out of the sky by an F-22 jet on Biden’s orders, little remains known about the Chinese balloon or what intel it obtained as the FBI’s report on the incident remains veiled in secrecy.
The lack of information has prompted demands from members of Congress that the Biden administration reveal what’s known about the balloon.






