On Sunday, the US Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said that he was not ruling out aliens after a string of shoot-downs of unidentified objects.
General Glen VanHerck said, “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out,” when he was asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three floating objects shot down by warplanes in as many days.
“I haven’t ruled out anything,” added VanHerck, head of US North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
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“At this point, we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.”
VanHerck’s comments were made during a Pentagon briefing after an F-16 fighter jet shot down an octagonal-shaped object over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border.
This downing was announced by a congresswoman Rep. Elissa Slotkin on Twitter.
“Just got a call from @DeptofDefense — our military has an extremely close eye on the object above Lake Huron,” Slotkin said in a tweet on Sunday. “We’ll know more about what this was in the coming days, but for now, be assured that all parties have been laser-focused on it from the moment it traversed our waters.”
The object was shaped like an octagon with strings hanging off it and did not appear to be carrying anything, according to CNN.
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It was shot down by a US F-16 fighter jet on Sunday and was flying at 20,000 feet over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was about to go over Lake Huron when it was neutralized.
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the object was not assessed to be a military threat, but it was a flight hazard.
“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. Our team will now work to recover the object in an effort to learn more,” Ryder said in a statement.
The one “decommissioned” on Sunday was the same unidentified object that NORAD had tracked on Saturday above Montana and Lake Michigan, according to Ryder.
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“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,” said the Department of Defense Sunday.
This engagement marks the fourth time an object was shot down over North America since a Chinese spy balloon was shot down on Feb. 2 over the Atlantic Ocean.
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