The White House claims that the recent “takedowns” of unidentified flying objects in the days following the Chinese spy balloon had yielded “no” proof of any “alien or extraterrestrial activities.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there was no proof of “alien or extraterrestrial activity” on Monday at a news briefing after the US military shot down several objects over US and Canadian airspace.
“There is no — let me repeat that — there is no sign of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns,” Jean-Pierre remarked. “I simply wanted to make sure we address this from the White House.”
The press secretary’s statement was made the day after General Glen VanHerck responded to a question about if he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for objects that the United States had shot down by saying, “I will let the intel community as well as the counterintelligence community start figuring that out” and that he had not “ruled out anything.”
Breitbart News claimed on Sunday that the American military has shot down an unidentified flying object over Michigan, making it the fourth such shootdown in the previous eight days.
A Chinese spy balloon that had been flying over the United States for days was shot down by the United States early in the month over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. The revelation only became public once American citizens saw the surveillance balloon drifting above their houses, despite the fact that U.S. officials were aware of the balloon days before it was shot down.
Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated that the Chinese surveillance balloon was gathering data on the infrastructure of the United States rather than the military sites.
The Oklahoma senator stated, “I believe they were looking at our infrastructure especially, or specifically, our infrastructure when we’re transferring oil and petroleum products from Alaska to the lower 48s. I find it extremely suspicious why that was flying that pattern when they claim it’s out of control if you look at the flight pattern, where it originated from, and where it crossed. I don’t think it was in the least.”
“In case we got into a dispute with them,” he said, “I suppose they were plainly trying to see if they could interrupt the delivery of petroleum items.”
Days before President Joe Biden was scheduled to deliver his State of the Union speech, all of this ultimately led to an increase in tensions between Washington and China.
