National Security Council spokesman John Kirby and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to provide more details about the balloon and UFOs the military has shot down these past eight days.
Unfortunately, KJP said they have “no indication” the UFOs came to us from aliens:
JEAN-PIERRE: “I know there have been questions and — and concerns about this, but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. Again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.”
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Kirby told the media that the spy balloon shot down last week belonged to China’s “high-altitude balloon program for intelligence gathering.” He seems to confirm The Washington Post report about the program that targets many countries.
So why has no one confirmed or seen these balloons until now? Kirby suggested new radar:
The White House said Monday that recent “enhanced radar capabilities” may partially explain why more objects have been detected in the US airspace.John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, explained during a White House press briefing that since the Chinese balloon program’s “recent incursion into our airspace the United States and Canada — through (North American Aerospace Command) NORAD — have been more closely scrutinizing that airspace, including enhancing our radar capabilities.”
Kirby said the military shot down the three objects since the first because they wanted “to air on the side of safety” since they couldn’t rule out the possibility of them spying on the country:
KIRBY: “… any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn’t rule that out. And so there — you know, you want to air on the side of safety here in terms of protecting our national security interests and the fact that these objects could have and — and likely did at some point in their path, transit over, you know, potential military sites of ours, our sensitive sites.”
Kirby denied China’s accusation that the U.S. has balloons flying over China:
KIRBY: “There is no U.S. surveillance aircraft over Chinese — in Chinese airspace.”REPORTER: “Even Chinese claimed airspace?”KIRBY: “There is no U.S. surveillance aircraft in Chinese airspace.”
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