Monday, February 13, 2023

Pentagon Says Currently Unable To Definitively Assess Nature Of Downed Objects

The US Department of Defense (DOD) currently lacks sufficient information on the airborne objects that were shot down over the past days, according to the Pentagon.

"We have not yet been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are. We have acted out of an abundance of caution to protect our security interests," US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs Melissa Dalton said during a Sunday Pentagon briefing.

Dalton said that after the Chinese balloon incident, the US military has been more thorough in tracking suspicious objects in US airspace, which is why a larger number of objects has been detected.

Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, head of the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), said during the Sunday briefing that he was urging people not to attribute the recent airborne object incidents to any specific country, since the Pentagon lacked information in that respect.

When asked about the objects' possible connection to aliens, VanHerck told reporters that he has not "ruled out anything" and was going to "let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out."

The NORAD head said he could not explain precisely how the objects stayed in the air - there could have been gas-filled balloons inside the objects or another type of propulsion system.

  • Earlier on Sunday, the Pentagon confirmed that an airborne object was shot down over Lake Huron in the US state of Michigan, at the direction of US President Joe Biden, because it presented a threat due to potential surveillance capabilities.

On Saturday, an unidentified object was shot down by a US F-22 aircraft over the Yukon Territory in Canada. The White House said that the downed object had been tracked over 24 hours and was unmanned.

On Friday, the Biden administration announced that the United States shot down an unidentified object flying at approximately 40,000 feet near Alaska's northern coast along the Arctic Ocean. Biden ordered US military aircraft to take down the object due to a potential hazard to civilian airplanes.

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  1. The unidentified object shot down by a US fighter aircraft over Lake Huron near the border with Canada was octagonal in shape, Michigan Congressman Jack Bergman told Fox News.

    "They informed me that an F-16 using an AIM-9 missile had shot down an octagonal structure over Lake Huron, the altitude was about 20,000 feet," Representative Bergman said on Sunday.

    He added that specialists were working on recovering the debris and that there was no damage to any property or civilians because the object fell into the water.

    Earlier on Sunday, Bergman said on Twitter that the "US military has decommissioned another 'object' over Lake Huron." Representative Elissa Slotkin from Michigan said on Twitter that the US military was tracking an object over Lake Huron.

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  2. The airborne object that the US military shot down over Lake Huron on Sunday was "a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities," the US Department of Defense said in a statement.

    "Based on its flight path and data we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites," the statement reads. "We did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assess it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities," the Pentagon added.

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