Explaining why the US military just shot down three unidentified flying objects, the commander of US Northern Command said it was due to a radar adjustment that was made after a Chinese balloon was spotted over the US.
Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who heads NORTHCOM and NORAD, told reporters Sunday that the adjustments that were made mean the radars pick up slower and smaller objects that were previously filtered out by clutter.
“With some adjustments, we’ve been able to get a better categorization of radar tracks now. And that’s why I think you’re seeing these overall. Plus, there’s a heightened alert to look for this information,” VanHerck said.
VanHerck’s comments suggest that objects similar to the ones the US shot down in recent days frequently travel in US and Canadian airspace, but the US military just started shooting them down.
A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released in January said there were 366 UFOs reported to the US military in about a year and a half. Of those incidents, 163 were found to be balloons, 26 were drones, and six more were airborne clutter or birds. The other 171 incidents have not yet been attributed.
The US military shot down the three UFOs within a day of spotting them, exercising much less caution than it approached the Chinese balloon that was eventually downed off the coast of South Carolina. The Pentagon said it shot down the other objects more quickly because they were traveling at an altitude that endangered commercial aircraft, unlike the Chinese balloon.
VanHerck said that the recent incidents were unprecedented in US history. “I believe this is the first time within United States or America airspace that NORAD or United States Northern Command has taken kinetic action against an airborne object,” he said.
It’s not clear what the three objects were that the US shot down. Now that the military is quick to pull the trigger against flying objects, it raises the risk of an accidental shoot-down of an aircraft carrying civilians or the possibility of debris hurting people on the ground.
It’s obvious that this is to take attention away from the Biden corruption scandal.
And the criminal declaration of war against Germany. Not to mention the fact that NATO allies are backstabbing each other and the stupid idea to produce military weapons in a destroyed country on scorched earth with a fraction left of its population. It can’t get any crazier, and more stupid than that.
The sky is falling down on us and most of the nation does not even notice it.
Yes. The Nord Stream blow up was an act against Germany.
Funny how our nefarious actions are blamed on Presidential concerns over some corruption scandal. Not saying that isn’t part of it but our belligerence is hardly based on that. We’d be no different with a “clean” president.
“But because we have not been able to definitively assess what these
recent objects are, the — the president wanted to act out of an
abundance of caution to protect our security and in our interest,” … So, yeah, the government doesn’t actually know what it’s blasting out of the sky with an abundance of caution at a million dollars a pop. Does it have any guesses? Has anybody looked at any wreckage? Are we missing any airliners?
The public has been manipulated to fear China and Russia over many years, it is expected to react hysterical. Actually the public is really in a coma and MSM makes sure it stays that way.
Correct. Propaganda in the form of movies geared to that end. Rad Dawn, etc. Coma? Yes. Also Gore Vidal called the U.S. the United States of Amnesia. Point well taken.
I miss Gore Vidal, and all the others of that generation. They could really stimulate public opinion. The right people, at the right time, at the right place.
Funny, of the hundreds over years without any accident ever reported suddenly they cluster the skies over the USA and Canada. And the reaction is irresponsible and how much does it cost to fire one missile against an unknown object?
Extremely child-like and manipulative on the part of the partner in the propaganda, the MSM.
I am a little surprised that they shoot down stuff where they “don’t know what it was” It would seem the rules of missile safety are much more relaxed than the rules of firearms safety.. I didn’t know what it was is not going to look good in court
“US Military Says It Started Shooting Down UFOs After Adjusting Radars According to NORAD’s commander, the objects the US started shooting down were previously filtered out as clutter”
It all comes back to an eighties German hair band.
I’m freaking out.
Me too. How can everything have become this stupid? We have NOBODY in the mainstream, NOT A SINGLE PERSON, who is stopping us and saying, “balloons? Really?”
And the US government taking the stance of shooting at anything that blows over the horizon, in the middle of sky high nuclear tensions. This is very bad.
Indeed. “Balloons? Really?” is pretty much verbatim as far as I can analyze it. And they’re supposedly blasting stuff for no other stated reason than that they don’t know what it is, which would usually get you locked up in an institution. Crazy seems to have gone mainstream.
I just want to be the first to point out that the balloon threat is inflated.
Thank you, thank you …
Blown out of proportion.
Clearly pumped up.
A scandal full of hot air…
Psy ops…. Perhaps…