A top U.S. Air Force general has made a remarkable and chilling statement regarding “objects” that President Joe Biden ordered shot down over the past several days, including one over Alaska and one in Canadian airspace over the weekend.
Gen. Glen VanHerck, who is in charge of defending all North American airspace, made his remarks during a press briefing “after the U.S. military shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron on Sunday, one over Canada on Saturday, and one Friday over Alaska,” the Daily Wire reported.
VanHerck was asked if the U.S. military had ruled out that the targets were extraterrestrial in origin when he said: “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven’t ruled out anything.”
He then added: “At this point, we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.”
According to reports, an F-16 fighter plane destroyed an “octagonal” object over Lake Huron. Later, an anonymous U.S. defense official later told Reuters, “No indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent take downs.”
The top NORAD commander also said the military was fairly certain the objects were not “balloons.”
“I’m not going to categorize them as balloons. We’re calling them objects for a reason,” VanHerck said. “I’m not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure or it could be some type of a propulsion system. But clearly, they’re — they’re able to stay aloft.”
He also said the Pentagon debated about whether to take the objects down using the F-16’s cannons rather than a missile in order to try and better preserve it but that the pilots helped rule that out.
“We assessed taking a gunshot yesterday in that event, as well as today, and the pilots in each situation felt that that was really unachievable because of the size, especially yesterday in the altitude and also because of the challenge to acquire it visually because it’s so small,” VanHerck said.
“We have taken extreme caution to ensure that we limit potential collateral damage, so today, we worked closely with the FAA to clear out the airspace,” he added. “I gave direction specifically to the pilots to use their visual acuity to check for mariners on the ground, airplanes in the air to clear with their radars as well. And when they were comfortable that we can minimize collateral damage, they selected the best weapon today — that was the AIM 9x (missile). And they took the shot.”
