The takedowns by the United States of unidentified aerial objects accumulate, and with them questions. Unlike balloon shot down by two fighter jets on February 4, whose ownership was identified and recognized by China and to which Washington attributed an espionage objective, unknowns surround other three smaller gadgets and that they were flying at a lower altitude, that they were shot down FridaySaturday and Sunday considering that they represented a riesgo “very real & rdquor; for air traffic commercial. And this Monday it was announced that the president Joe Biden has created a task force who will study “the broader political implications to detect, analyze and dispose of unidentified aerial objects that represent safety or security risks”.
The idea for the formation of this group came from Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor, and will integrate representatives of the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as other government agencies. “All elements of the government will redouble their efforts to understand and mitigate these events & rdquor ;, Kohn Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, said at the daily press conference at the White House.
It was one of the few assertive statements that Kirby could make in that appearance and his explanations still do not clear up many unknowns. The authorities they did not detect objects shot down Friday over Alaska, Saturday over Canada, and Sunday over Lake Huron sent communication signals. They also saw no sign that the artifacts, which they were unmannedhad propulsion capacity and the dominant thesis, according to Kirby, is that they moved by the winds.
Espionage, perhaps; aliens, no
Regarding the possibility that the devices were used for espionageKirby has said that “there are no specific reasons to suspect that they were conducting surveillance of any kind & rdquor ;, but then he added that “cannot be ruled out”. He has also ensured that he acted “as a precaution… to protect security, interests and flight safety & rdquor ;.
Perhaps there will be more answers when the remains of the three objects are recovered, but it is something for which this Monday we had to continue waiting. And the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austinconfirmed that The remains had not yet been accessed. a mission for which Defense is collaborating, among others, with the FBI, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US has not yet recovered any debris from the three UFOs American fighters shot down over the weekend. He says the DoD is working with the FAA, the FBI, NASA, and others “to work through what we might be seeing.”
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What both Kirby and the White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, have discardedbetween laughs but also seriously, is that the objects can be linked to alien or extraterrestrial activity. And it is something that has been necessary to highlight after a statement from a Pentagon commander over the weekend saying that he personally was not ruling anything out.
Adjusted radars and sensors
Kirby has confirmed that the increasing detection of objects has been due to the fact that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) for its acronym in English), has adjusted its system of radars and sensors to make them more sensitive, which has caused the number of detected incursions to rise. He has also defended that for years there has been information about “unidentified aerial phenomena & rdquor; without that prompting a thorough examination by the government and “President Biden has changed that & rdquor ;. “We are finally trying to understand them better & rdquor ;, he assured.
What he has not answered is why it has been decided to start tearing them down now, beyond phrases insisting that it is “better to err on the side of safety”. And Kirby has said that it remains to be determined if there must be changes in policy to approve this type of operation.
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Republicans and Democrats have called for the development of precisely a policy that determines when an unidentified aerial object should be shot down, especially if it flies overhead. sensitive locationsbut Kirby this Monday has assured that there is no general policy for all military bases in the continental United States. “I won’t talk about the specific precautions in the bases but We will do whatever it takes to protect the nation’s secrets.& rdquor ;, he said.