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,” Agerpres writes.

“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.

The series of such incidents followed the February 4 downing of a Chinese balloon that US officials said was being used for “surveillance”.

Who these flying objects were and how they stayed in the air is unknown

Another US military official said on condition of anonymity that the military has no evidence that would indicate the extraterrestrial origin of these objects.

General VanHerk also noted that the American military has not yet managed to establish how the last three objects were kept in the air, as well as their origin.

“We call them objects and not balloons for a reason,” the American military said.

Pentagon investigates “unknown aerial phenomena”

Reuters also notes that these incidents took place in a context in which the Pentagon in recent years has given impetus to efforts to investigate military sightings of UFOs – unidentified flying objects, renamed in the official language to “unidentified aerial phenomena”, UAP in English.

The U.S. government’s efforts to investigate such unusual unidentified objects — whether they have been spotted in space, in the sky or even underwater — have resulted in hundreds of reports that are still being analyzed, according to senior military officials.

However, the Pentagon claims that no evidence has been found that Earth has been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial life forms.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, along with a newly created Pentagon office known as the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), is tasked with analyzing cases in which US forces observe unusual phenomena.

Their first report to the US Congress, dated June 2021, analyzed 144 observations made by US Air Force personnel since 2004.

That report found that one such incident involved the release of a large balloon, but the other incidents were deemed to be beyond the government’s ability to explain without further analysis.

No “intelligent extraterrestrial life” has yet been observed

The January report of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence recorded another 366 cases of sightings of various objects, mostly balloons, drones, birds or debris, but 171 cases remained without official explanations.

“Some of these unspecified UAPs appear to have exhibited unusual flight characteristics or behavior and warrant further investigation,” the office concluded.

In December, Ronald Moultrie, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, told the media that he had seen nothing to indicate the existence of any form of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

“We haven’t seen anything in the reports so far to indicate that there was an alien visit, an alien ship crash, or anything like that,” Moultrie said.

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