As new high-altitude objects are shot down over North America, lawmakers say they need more information

American F-22 fighter jets have shot down three high-altitude objects in the airspace above the U.S. and Canada in the last week, and members of Congress said Sunday that they have not been briefed about the two latest incidents.

On Feb. 4, the U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been transiting across the country for several days. The White House announced a second object had been shot down on Friday that was flying over Alaska at about 40,000 feet. The following day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he worked with President Joe Biden to order a U.S. fighter jet to shoot down an “unidentified object” that was flying over the Yukon.

Officials have yet to release many details about the objects that were downed on Friday and Saturday, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that officials now believe both objects were balloons that were much smaller than the initial spy balloon.

Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said he is unaware of what the two latest objects are, and that members of Congress did not receive formal briefings about them from the Biden administration.

“This could be because they don’t have any information,” Turner told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “From the press conference we saw, it does seem like they took this action without a real understanding for what they were going after.”

He said there needs to be more engagement between the Biden administration and Congress, and that the events of the last week suggest the U.S. needs to do a better job actively defending American airspace.

Turner was critical of the Biden administration for waiting several days to take down the suspected Chinese spy balloon, so he said he “would prefer them to be trigger happy than to be permissive.”

In a statement Saturday, Pentagon Press Secretary…