The United States does not know if the flying objects were espionage; “For now, it does not rule out anything,” said a senior official

USA “don’t know for sure” if unidentified objects shot down by US warplanes in recent days they had an end to espionagethe White House said Monday.

“We do not know for sure if they had surveillance capacitybut we cannot rule it out,” White House Homeland Security spokesman John Kirby said at a press conference.

Of the so-called “unidentified flying objects,” Washington claims to know nothing or almost nothing: neither their origin, nor their use, nor their nature. The only thing he seems clear about is that none of them posed a direct military threat, but they potentially endangered civilian air traffic, so President Joe Biden ordered fighter jets to shoot them down.

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The White House also affirmed on Monday that there are no signs of extraterrestrial activity in relation to these unidentified objects. “There’s no indication of aliens…with these recent shootdowns, I wanted to make sure the American people knew,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

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In the land of “ET” and “The X-Files”, this mystery fuels all kinds of speculation. He General Glen VanHerck, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), said that “for now he does not rule out anything” in response to a question from a journalist about a possible extraterrestrial origin, a phrase that went viral.

Three mysterious “objects” have been shot down in recent days: Friday over Alaska (northwest), Saturday over Yukon in northwestern Canada and Sunday over Lake Huron in the northern United States.

It is not clear if they are related to a Chinese globe much larger shot down by a fighter jet over the Atlantic days before.

The United States and China accuse each other of espionage, so the mystery about the flying “objects” persists. Relations between the two superpowers have been significantly strained since the United States shot down on February 4 a Chinese balloon that was flying over their territory, which Washington said was trying to obtain information from military installations.

He The US State Department estimated that with this accusation China was trying to “limit” the consequences of its own “spy balloon program”, deployed according to Washington for several years on 40 countries on five continents. Meanwhile, China has acknowledged the balloon as its own, but talks about a weather observation program and an inadvertent violation of US airspace. (YO)