A vague answer in a high-flying matter can lead to a significant embarrassment, and that is what has happened. This past Sunday, a question from a New York Times journalist to a high-ranking US military commander about the origin of the unidentified flying objects caused a stir by assuring that she did not rule out that they were “of alien or extraterrestrial origin.”
A statement that they had to clarify throughout the day, according to local media, and other National Security officials did rule out having any indication of an extraterrestrial visit in this matter.
The point is that around this whole phenomenon, if it can be called that, there are more doubts than certainties. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify what we really know.
The United States has so far shot down four high-altitude unidentified objects. Everything has been throughout this week. The last one took place over the Great Lakes area, in the northeast of the country, and the reason was that the object was flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters, which could pose a danger to aviation.
The previous ones were shot down on Saturday, in western Canada, and on Friday, over the territory of Alaska.
All this supposes the repercussion of the incident that was uncovered with the Chinese balloon that the US Army shot down over the Atlantic after wandering all over the North American sky. Washington claims it was a Chinese spy balloon, but Beijing maintains it was a weather balloon that accidentally went astray.
they don’t know what they are
Actually, the Department of Defense has assured that it has not yet been able to assess what the objects are or to which country they belong. The last one had an octagonal shape, several loose ropes and did not carry any type of cargo that could be distinguished, CNN television collects.
A White House spokesman said of the one flying over Alaska that it was a balloon but “much smaller than the Chinese spy balloon” and that it barely reached the “size of a car,” the New York Times reports. The Canadian one, on the other hand, was a cylindrical balloon and also smaller than the Chinese one.
Nor have they been able to detail how they stay in the air, because it is not certain that they are hot air balloons. The point is that, after the incident of the Chinese balloon, a situation of hypervigilance has been created, and that it increases the tension with the Asian country.
Aliens? “We do not rule out anything”
The question at hand that gave rise to the alien controversy was uttered by The New York Times journalist Helene Cooper at a press conference that took place at the Pentagon. The journalist made reference to a certain popular outcry by assuring that, since “they had not yet been able to tell us what those things are that we are shooting from the sky”, “everyone was wondering” if there was an “alien or aliens” in these flying objects.
To this, the response of General Glen D. VanHerck, in command of the Northern Command of the Air Force, was emphatic: “I will let the intelligence and counterintelligence community find out. I have not ruled out anything at this time. At this point we continue to evaluate every threat or potential and unknown threat approaching North America with the intent to identify it.”
Despite the fact that throughout the day they clarified that there were no aliens involved, doubts were sown: searches for “aliens” on Google skyrocketed and those for “UFO” (UFO in English) remained at full throttle throughout the day. day. Can you imagine the next ‘balloon’ flying on a bicycle?
Source: Lasexta
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