‘Electronics and optics’ among wreckage of balloon shot down off east coast, White House says, as recovery efforts end and parts sent for analysis

The US has finished work to recover sunken remnants of the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina and the debris reinforces that it was for spying, officials have said.

The White House national security spokesman, John Kirby, said the wreckage included “electronics and optics” but declined to say what the US had learned from it so far.

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