Pentagon briefing on unusual flying objects shot down across America | General Glen VanHerck

The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said on Sunday (February 12) after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects that he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to U.S. intelligence experts.

Asked during a Pentagon briefing whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by U.S. warplanes in as many days, General Glen VanHerck said: "I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything."

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[totalplonker]

Two aliens are flying near earth~

The first one says, "The dominant life form here have developed satellite based nuclear weapons."

The second one says, "Are they an emerging intelligence?"

The first one says, "I don't think so, they have it aimed at themselves."

[Lufex_]

Oh god, I hope they bring back Elvis!

[VJ-ltuk]

“I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens”

[kevinkingmaker]

"We don't know what it is, but it is not a threat." What a silly thing to say.

[Zonker]

Who'd have though the first visitors would be hot air balloon enthusiasts?

[griffithtvr]

Would have been nice if they had told us if this object was flying at balloon speed or mach 50

[damianketcham]

It’s probably a T-72 turret from Ukraine. No worries!!!!

[chris-vnsw]

Sounds like a third party country testing the US response time 🤔

[michaelvoisine]

They are full of it. Can’t believe anything they say.

[MrDoysh]

Is it me or did that brief give a lot of capability away whoever owns the object. Now knows that NORAD has trouble tracking something with that radar cross-section.

[liamd]

4:00 "What we saw was an object that began drifting" so what I'm hearing is that the object was still intact after being hit by an air-to-air missile!?

[mikegrant]

How can you know it does not pose a kinetic military threat if you don't know what it is.

[anon]

I would welcome our new Alien overlords. Please come!

[davidbrisbane]

The UFO didn't put up much of a fight, but some how it managed to hide from the interceptors for a while.

[Check-it-out]

They are here ! Finally ! And how do we greet them ? With hostility… sad.

[TheSnoopall]

I believe this is not new to the military but they had been ordered not to look at before.

[Lulu-ktgr]

They were described as Cylindrical and then Octagonal. What kind of balloons would be cylindrical or octagonal?? This all makes no sense.

[jmacers]

Someone probing airspace to test capabilities and response times?

[alexanderg]

I've never heard such a load of melodramatic twoddle over a few spy balloons. As if the great powers haven't been spying on each other since the birth of flight.

[mirandahotspring]

So it came in over Montana, then the next morning was to the east approaching Wisconsin. It made it all the way across the Dakotas and most of Minnesota without being detected, eventually getting shot down over Lake Huron over a thousand miles from where it entered US air space.