There are no “signs of extraterrestrial activity” after a series of drones shot down by the US military, a White House spokeswoman said on Monday, adding that it needed to be “addressed”, AFP reported.

“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no sign of aliens or alien activity in these recent incidents,” said Karin Jean-Pierre, insisting the White House’s response was “significant.”

Still unknown

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says it’s just interference from China, which has a major spy balloon project. However, he admits that it is still being determined that it was an octagonal flying object shot down by the US Air Force, according to Reuters.

“The United States has not yet been able to identify the recently downed objects found in North American airspace,” the spokesman said.

At a White House news conference, Kirby said that closer surveillance of the airspace may partly explain the increase in the number of objects detected, but that they were not rated as a threat to people on the ground and showed no signs of being maneuverable. or movement

He assures that the United States does not send spy balloons over China and does not know about violations of Chinese airspace by American planes. “Using fighter jets to shoot down these unidentified flying objects was the best solution,” he added.

President Biden received information that this is not only a US problem, but a worldwide problem. These unidentified objects have been discovered for years. They move slowly on the radar. Some were not discovered by the previous administration.

“I couldn’t give an exact estimate, so I talked to the Prime Minister of Canada. We are focused on finding out their nature and whether they are a threat to humans. We looked to see if they had people on board, they didn’t have people on board, they weren’t maneuvering, they weren’t communicating, but they were a threat to civil aviation. Therefore, the president gave the order to shoot them down. We continue monitoring. There are no active threats today. We are consulting with our allies to see how we can do this,” said the conference in the White House.

The US is creating a new “interagency group” to study unidentified aerial objects

President Joe Biden has appointed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to lead “an interagency group to examine the broader policy implications for the detection, analysis and disposal of unidentified aerial objects that pose a security threat,” national security spokesman John Kirby told the carrier on Monday. , quoted by CNN.

The group, which includes Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes, is tasked with engaging “our appropriate partners in sharing information and trying to get their perspective,” and the administration will be briefed. Meanwhile, members of Congress and local officials, Kirby said.

Kirby, who is the White House’s national security coordinator for strategic communications, also said that none of the three latest downed objects posed a threat to people on the ground, sent communications signals, showed signs of “maneuvering or had any driving ability”. and was not staffed.

All three takedown missions were completed “successfully and safely” and recovery efforts are ongoing, although the administration acknowledged that all three targets were shot down “in fairly remote terrain — ice and wilderness,” making reconnaissance efforts difficult.

The head of the US Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), General Glen VanHerk, said on Sunday regarding the recent series of unidentified objects shot down by US military aircraft that he could not rule out aliens or some other explanation. Reuters reports.

When asked if he ruled out the possibility of an extraterrestrial origin for the three flying objects shot down in as many days by US military aircraft, General VanHerk replied: “Let the intelligence and counterintelligence community determine that. I didn’t rule anything out.”

“We are currently continuing to analyze any unknown or potential threat approaching North America in an effort to identify it,” he said.

VanHerk made the comments at a briefing at the Pentagon after a US Air Force F-16 shot down an octagonal flying object over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border.

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