Sure, you've all seen the UFO hysteria Every couple hours, it seems like a new UFO is being identified. a U.S F-22 once again shooting down an unidentified object in the sky today over Canada Prime minister Justin Trudeau tweeting I ordered the takedown of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace NORAD Command shot down the object over the Yukon Canadian and U.S aircraft. U.S F-22 successfully fired at the object Trudeau says he also spoke to President Biden and Canadian Forces will work to recover the wreckage. this as the U.S militaries in the process of recovering the wreckage of another unidentified object shot down Friday off the coast of Alaska the White House saying this object was flying at forty thousand feet, posing a threat to civilian aircraft out of an abundance of caution and the recommendation of the Pentagon President Biden.

But why did the aliens only go to the United States and Canada Are they interested in the rest of the planet for the military to down the object? And they did. One senior official describing it as cylindrical and silverish gray. the Pentagon saying it's about the future Mr President The White House says the object was first detected Thursday Evening fighter jets sent to observe determining it was unmanned. The President briefed Thursday given the order to shoot it down Friday Morning an F-22 fighter jet taking the shot at 1 45 PM This object didn't appear to have the gondola underneath it like the suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of the Carolinas.

There's no indication that it had any capability to be powered or to steer in a particular direction. as soon as some sort of alien fuel dude I'm guess I'm going ahead of time some aliens have like this bio mechanical hexafuel and it's Unlimited oh off or to collect intelligence President Biden has faced some criticism for not acting sooner to shoot down that Chinese spy balloon before it transverse the United States what if chat What if chat Granny's pulling you down but the heavy gravity reverser and they're flying because they're equalizing the the gravity of the reversal and the real gravity and they're just hovering and true technology. Bay from that Chinese spy balloon at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean M1 ABC News Washington poke Champion out of the sky. This is a phenomenon that's happening around the world it seems and it's leading people to believe that aliens are coming to visit us in droves.

like they're all taking a school field trip to planet Earth over here and they're trying to leave, then subsequently getting shot down which I can't imagine would have been part of their itinerary. Now this all started with the Spy balloon that the U.S shot down. Uh, basically this balloon the size of a few school buses was identified executed. Which is this giant? we're going to be the next uh Prospect for like expansion right? And they're just like no, In recent times they're like no, there's these years Instead of a house, it was just a surveillance device which they said came from China and from what I've read: China did take ownership of it but called it an overreaction to shoot it down which gave me a bit of a giggle because I just love that image of like hey, whoa guys A few hours ago China said that it was preparing to shoot down an unidentified flying objects.

they're all over the place. Uh, it's a very interesting situation and this is even more weird considering I just posted a video going over aliens and how I don't believe they've ever visited Earth and now two days later we've got UFOs out the Wazoo here. Maybe the madman I was arguing with on Twitch was right about warp drives and they're firing on turbo mode chat chat isn't a wall World War this is World Wars World's War their warp drive technology to visit us here I'll go ahead and give my perspective now. I Still am not convinced it's aliens because if it was We Stand zero percent chance of actually shooting them down.

our technology wouldn't even begin to make them like consider us a threat. We are so laughably low on the technological food chain of a species that can visit our planet because they would have cracked things that are beyond our comprehension. There's no way they'd somehow fall victim to our Weaponry but Zoink's Scoob I'll tell you I Couldn't be happier to be proven wrong I would love if this truly was extraterrestrial tourists just coming by to visit social media. All they could do is infiltrate the systems and they would have to fire a gun for social media.

Plan some dog see what if this is what if this is it happy about us destroying their like balloon travel devices but God damn it that would be amazing. I Also love the idea idea that it actually is alien visitors and the way that they get here is through like hot air balloon through space like the most inefficient means of travel imaginable. but somehow that's the one that they've chosen. But regardless I would love if it was aliens I Also loved the discussion around aliens.

right now you'll have people giving all kinds of like evidence once again of like abductions and I fell asleep one day while working on the construction site. when I woke up there was ejaculate in my pants and I I didn't even remember having a wet dream. Aliens abducted me and jerked me off in order to frame me to look like a weirdo at my job. You know, like discussion around aliens has never been either right now and again.

I would love if these UFOs really were alien but I'm doubtful even make an argument for why aliens might want to visit. Earth Maybe they're coming here to buy moist Global merch from Voice Global.com It's so comfortable that words traveled across the Galaxy It's the best merch ever designed and they know it. so they have to to come to Earth in order to get like proper connection to the server. So that way they can purchase it and you can too.

It's all available at Moistglobal.com right now we're doing heaven. Have mercy on the elves! Yeah, that's what we have up right here. Canada UFO Thing someone said there was a video. Yeah, I'm a little bit I Better go into many details about how we discover, uh, and counteract foreign intelligence collection efforts because much of what we've done and are doing is of course sensitive.

But we were able to determine that China has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that's connected to the people's Liberation Army It was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it. We detected it, we tracked it, and we have been carefully studying it to learn as much as we can. We know that these PRC surveillance balloons have crossed over dozens of countries on multiple continents around the world, including some of our closest allies and partners. We assessed that at this time, these balloons have provided limited additive capabilities to the Prc's other intelligence platforms used over the United States But in the future, if the PRC continues to advance this technology, it certainly could become more valuable to them.

The President also instructed the intelligence Community to take a broad look at the phenomenon of unidentified aerial objects. Indeed, President Biden conducted the first ever daily intelligence briefing session devoted to this phenomenon back in June of 2021. He was brief that this is for the United States but one for the rest of the world. And as I said, our friends and our partners are dealing with this as well.

We worked on a bipartisan basis to stand up an office at the Pentagon to study this in partnership with the Intelligence Community, academic institutions and the private sector. I See it then. These unidentified aerial phenomena have been reported for many years without explanation or deep examination by the government. President Biden has changed all that.

We are finally trying to understand them better now. In light of the Chinese balloon program and this recent incursion into our airspace, the United States and Canada through NORAD have been more closely scrutinizing. What about the UFOs though including enhancing our radar capabilities which as the commander of North Com and NORAD General Van Hurk said just last night May at least partially explain the increase in the objects that have been detected. Slow moving objects at high altitude with a small radar cross section are difficult to detect on radar.

Even objects the size of a the Chinese Bible which had a payload the size of roughly three school buses were not picked up by previous administrations or other countries. Just look at it. then. We also know that a range of entities including countries.

companies, research, and academic organizations operate objects at these altitudes for purposes that are not nefarious at all, including scientific research. That said, because we have not yet been able to Def definitively assess what these most recent objects are, we acted out of an abundance of caution to protect the security, our security, our interest, and flight safety. In Saturday's case, we acted in consultation with the Canadian government, the President speaking personally the Prime Minister Trudeau The Spy balloon was, of course, different because we knew precisely where that was. As we have said, we do not assess that these most recent objects posed any direct threat to people on the ground, and we are laser focused on confirming their nature and purpose, including through intensive efforts to collect debris in the remote locations where they have fallen.

In each instance, we have followed the same basic course: We assess whether they post any kinetic threat to people on the ground; They did not. We assessed whether they were sending any communication signals We detected none. We looked to see whether they were maneuvering or had any propulsion capabilities. We saw no signs of that, and we made sure to determine whether or not they were manned.

They were not. We did, however, assess that their altitudes were considerably lower than the Chinese high altitude balloon and did pose a threat to civilian commercial air traffic. And while we have no specific reason to suspect that they were conducting surveillance of any kind, we couldn't rule that out. Gave the order to shoot them down.

These missions were completed successfully and safely. Efforts are actively underway right now at all sites to find what is left of those objects so that we can better understand and communicate with the American people what they are. I Think it's important to remind the objects in Alaska and Canada are in pretty remote Terrain Ice and Wilderness. All of that making it difficult to find them in winter weather.

The object over Lake Huron Now lies in what is probably very deep water. So outside of recovery operations, what are we doing? well? First, We are continuing to monitor. Sure, there are no active tracks today, but the professionals at NORAD will continue to do their important work. Secondly, we are Consulting with allies and partners on the challenge of identified aerial phenomenon and how we can all work together to deal with that challenge.

The President has directed the Secretary of State Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence to engage with their relevant counterparts to share information and to try to gain their perspectives. This is an issue that affects everybody around the world. I Don't get it. Third, we will continue to brief members of Congress and relevant State leadership on what we are doing and what we learn.

President has made this a very top priority we have over the course of just the last few days and certainly over the course of last week reached out to inform and brief members of Congress and relevant State governors of the operations that we were conducting and other recovery operations that are underway. We've also kept Congress briefed generally on this issue of Chinese surveillance balloons including classified briefings last dollars last week Administration Officials provided classified briefings for all senators and all members of the House of Representatives on the PRC surveillance balloon. What about the UFC fully expect and anticipate and support the ability to continue these briefings in the days ahead. And fourth, the President, through his National Security adviser has today directed an interagency team to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety oh my.

God Every element of the government you their efforts to understand and mitigate these events and I'm happy to take some questions. If the objects don't pose a military threat and they don't was a threat to anybody on the ground, why shoot them down? Particularly because the military has Uh is routinely monitoring radar you know, radar lips what? I kind of covered that in the opening statement. um, two real reasons here. First, there was a very real potential risk to civilian air traffic.

the ones shut down on Saturday I'm sorry, oh you don't know what the containment they have. It was about 20 000 feet and the two shot down Friday and Saturday were at about 40 000 feet. And as you know, transcontinental air traffic is roughly around 30 000 feet. It depends of course on on weather and so, uh, because we assessed that they weren't manned and weren't being controlled.

therefore left to atmospheric conditions. Um, the the real risk to safety of flight was was a problem. The second purpose and I talked about this earlier too was even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out. And so there you know you want to err on the side of safety here in terms of protecting our national security interests and the fact that these objects could have and uh, and likely did at some point in their path.

Uh, Transit Over you know, potential military sites of ours or sensitive sites. So again, out of an abundance of caution for those two reasons, the President, with the recommendation of his military leaders, directed them to be taken down because it's so unprecedented. Um, should the public be hearing from the President directly on this: I Am we have been I Think as transparent as we can be I won't speak for the President's uh, personal, uh, speaking schedule. but I mean he has been deeply engaged in, uh, every one of these decisions, he's been kept informed including as of this morning on what's going on with recovery efforts um, and uh And he's very much staying on top of the issue and Uh, and directing his team to make sure we are properly Consulting and briefing not just members of Congress but State leaders, of course, doing what we can in the in the public sphere Thank you.

John What is the President's standard going to be going forward about when he orders an unidentified object shot down? It's It comes down to one simple formulation. and that's if at the recommendation of his military leaders. he believes that the Safety and Security of the United, States, the Safety and Security of the American people his prime responsibility warrant that kind of a decision. So it's possible we could see these shoot Downs on a regular basis.

Oh my. God I Think it's useful for me to get ahead of where we are right now. The President will always side on preserving and protecting the Safety and Security of the American people. You said, we're not replying Any surveillance balloons over China Are we flying any other kind of surveillance craft routinely? Over time, we are not flying surveillance balloons over China and I'm not aware of any other craft that we're flying over in the Chinese airspace.

And then finally, can you tell us anything? I'm not gonna get into a description I've seen the Press reports about what what it looked like. um I I Think we all need to be humble here in in terms of what our ability is to positively identify stuff from fighter aircrafts that are going several hundred miles an hour past. essentially in terms of relative motion. a stationary object.

um, that was not very big. Um, so we don't know what this exactly looked like and again, we're still not sure exactly what what it, what the purpose of it was, or who owned it. but we we hope to be able to find out more once we can recover the debris from that one and from the other two as well. Um, just a few minutes ago, Prime minister Trudeau said that there's some sort of pattern to the objects over the last few days.

Is that something you could elaborate on what sort of pattern the White House has seen? I'm not familiar with the Prime minister's comments, so I I don't know if I uh, if I should take a swing at that, I would just tell you that going back to what I said before. uh, these objects were not being maneuvered. They did not appear to have any self-propulsion So the likely hypothesis is that the wedding moved by the prevailing winds. Um, and maybe perhaps that's what the Prime minister is talking about I Don't want to speak for him, but certainly is the prevailing winds, particularly at that altitude.

go west to east across the North American uh. airspace. I Mean there was a general common movement in in that regard and you spoke at the top about kind of reassessing radar given what happened with with the initial balloon. Can you give us a sense? Can we expect uh Should we assume that this is the the regular number of these objects over the United States that they've always been there and they just haven't been looked at the same way? Or is there any reason to expect that? this is this is more than usual that are flying.

So two thoughts there: I mean I I Think um, several questions I Think we can all get our heads around the fact that um, that there are sometimes, uh, things floating at high altitudes for various purposes. As I said scientific research weather weather balloons of innocuous craft uh uh can can be Aloft at high altitudes I Don't think that that's necessarily unusual here. It's difficult for for me to say exactly what you can expect going forward. One of the reasons that we think we're seeing more is because we're looking for more as you heard Uh General Van Hurt mentioned last night they have um, they have modified the filters and the gains as we call it of the of the the radar capabilities to look more visible, discreet from the ground.

at high altitude that doesn't make a small radar and anybody that's operated a radar will know you can set. You can set the parameters and if you set the parameters in such a way that to look for a certain something, it's more likely that you're going to find a certain something. And given all you've discussed during the action of the administration of taking and what people have learned Chinese spy balloon this year in previous years, these unidentified objects that we shoot down, they might have a question when it comes to these higher altitudes our America's borders secure. The President takes as I said earlier, he takes our national security uh extremely seriously.

He has no higher responsibility than the Safety and Security of the American people. and I don't think you need to look any further quite frankly than the decisions he's made in just the last week to 10 days to evidence that, but it feels like he's plugging holes like these are vulnerabilities that we are discovering in real time. You're making an assumption there that I don't know that the I don't know that the analysis will actually Bear out. Thank you very much.

Um, the President gave the order to shoot down the eye because of Lake Huron yesterday. Where was he? What kind of information did he have when he gave that order? What was brief to him and and how did he anticipate the outcome of that? He was here in the White House. He was kept constantly informed by Uh, by his National Security team and certainly by the military. Um, he made that decision I don't couldn't give you the exact time on the clock.

but yeah, that was bad I believe Uh, mid to late morning um and uh and then it was executed in the in the afternoon. we're their continuing season place in case there was a reaction from a foreign government in reaction to shooting that object down yesterday. the one yesterday? Yeah, well, it was shot over I mean it was shot over Lake Huron and landed in what we believe to be the Canadian side of the lake. Um, so we were obviously in constant communication and consultation with our Canadian counterparts and they are rightly because of where we think it's splashed down.

I mean there's sort of the in concert with the U.S Coast Guard but they are also involved in in trying to locate the soldiers. There was good Communications of a foreign government taking a special interest in that object from yesterday, reacting in an unusual way. No, okay, let's be in the back. Yeah, thanks.

uh uh. John Two questions. One you mentioned early on that um, this the the China uh balloon might have been giving limited additive capabilities I assume you're um, meaning onto their satellite surveillance. Can you specify what I mean what exactly it's getting from a balloon that they're not getting from Orphan orbiting satellites I Like the caveat that we haven't fully recovered everything though we have recovered some things from the bottom of the uh, it's a good question of the Atlantic um and we're analyzing that.

But with that caveat that we don't know exactly uh, what this uh, balloon uh was surveilling or what its capabilities were so just in general. and I that's an important caveat that I'd like you to remember um, when you are at a lower altitude then space. um, you could perhaps get a better Fidelity uh of uh of uh of uh of imagery for instance of things on the ground. But when you are not moving at the speed of a satellite and therefore you know only getting seconds over a a site, when you can maneuver Left Right Slow Down Speed up like this thing could, then you can loiter.

If you can loiter, you can soak in a little bit more. You can spend more time over a sensitive site. Some of their satellites are in geostationary orbit I mean they're just sitting there Gathering Signals intelligence, right? So um, what is the benefit I mean is it just to see what kind of fidelity we're going to learn more? I'd rather not go into any more detail than that. Right now, we're going to learn awesome.

Um, and frankly, I think that's a terrific question. Yes, we haven't responded to get from saying I played High School You said that Uh, the other object shot down were not able to transmit or we're not transmitting signals that they did not have any option that the China balloon did that have any. um was it emitting signals back? I'm not going to go into more detail about the the capabilities of that. We are going to be studying it and analyzing it.

There is no question in our minds that that system was designed to surveil that that was an intelligence asset. I'll leave it there so they don't know what it does. but I know it surveillance anywhere in the administration, to the kinds of companies that produce weather balloons or other craft that would fit these descriptions that might be from the commercial or corporate world to say is this yours or any kind of Outreach or have you been hearing from anyone who might say we have ours, they're in this area. Is any of that going on now? I Don't know of any conversations right now.

Uh Kelly But one of the reasons why the President directed Mr Sullivan to put together an interagency effort is to take a long look at that and try to learn a little bit better about who is up at that altitude doing what. Uh, for a completely legitimate purposes, we all recognize we need to probably have a better picture on that. and that's why the President wants the Center Agency effort to take a look and what kind of intelligence might be happening in terms of the diplomacy that's going on or whatever. If these are state-owned uh objects I'm not sure I understand what you mean is there is there a network of conversations that might be happening where someone might be able to say based on this octagonal description that hey, that sounds like this.

So and so I mean is there some conversations that are happening that might be able to give us some descriptions I mean the short answer to your question is yes and I talked about that. My opening statement: The President also directed I don't know what the she said uh director Haynes uh to have these kinds of conversations with our allies and partners around the world to share with them what we're learning, but also to see. get that, get their perspectives for commercial purposes. Yeah, again, we're going to have those kinds of conversations.

What we can learn from from them. What? Perhaps they can learn from us and are we still with object? or can we call them balloons? still with object and what they're doing in China And the there okay and then um, is there And just you said a moment ago that there's no knowledge of a U.S balloon or other craft over Chinese territory, just being cognizant of the fact that China has a different definition of what their territory is than the United States Is there any U.S surveillance aircraft over Taiwan over uh, the South China Sea that that would would fit into that there is no U.S surveillance aircraft uh, over Chinese in Chinese airspace Chinese claimed airspace. There's no U.S surveillance aircraft and well, I was like telling you they would shoot it down as well. And just finally, is there any new formal approach that's being different as how you're going to deal with these things on a systematic basis going forward? Yeah, well again again, that's what.

That's exactly what the the President wants Mr Sullivan to run as a process, an interagency process to help us. As I said in my opening statement, get around the policy implications here and whether and whether or not there needs to be any Uh policy changes going forward I Could ask on the flying way better than these guys taking down objects over U.S territories. As far as I'm aware of, what is you talked about the The Tweak in the radar systems. Yes, there's been a tweak in the threshold for uh, the Pentagon uh presenting to the President President signing off on military action related to anything over our airspace I'm not sure I'm following which is the Chinese is yeah.

The Radars were tweaked which is why you think you're seeing some of these. Oh, his kids has the decision about or has a threshold for the use of Fighters to take down objects also been tweaked? Has it been lowered? Has it been changed? We've never seen this before. All of a sudden we've seen no actually I'm sorry I didn't understand it at first. No.

I mean and you heard General Van Hurk talk about this last night and he's using established protocols um to engage, um, the crafting in the air aircraft in the air that can be legitimately brought down And as he said last night, the best way to do that, certainly in a timely and efficient effective way was through fighter aircraft and through the Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and they looked at and he talked about this. They looked at other options to try to bring them down to include gunfire, but that would have presented a greater risk to the pilots themselves. So this was the safest, most effective way to do that. Now where we go from here: I Think we just don't know right now in terms of whether there needs to be threshold changes as you put out.

I Think it's important to just take a step back here and and remember what the President ordered these actions with the Safety and Security American people foremost in his mind they were there were very good reasons to do it. Um, the military Then once given an order, determines how they're going to execute that order and General Van Hart decided that the best way to do this was with Sidewinder missiles and fighter aircraft on it. But this isn't reactive to the Chinese five alone in the sense of there was political pressure and so we are going to act quickly to take down any objects over our airspace because the pressure that came from State Republic this was this was these were decisions based, uh, purely and simply on what was in the best interest of the American people. Does the US government have video or imagery of these latest intercepts and will you guys be releasing it? You'd have to talk to DOD about that.

Jackie I I Don't know what kind of imagery might exist and uh, and they'd be one to talk about whether they're releasable or not. Um, obviously. Jackie Come on. Certainly, with respect to the Spy balloon, the Um, we want to make sure that we are gleaning what we can from this imagery so that we can answer your questions better.

Um, and so to what degree there is or will it will or not be public release. I Do want to stress that you know we're going to want to make sure that we have had a chance to analyze that imagery uh, for ourselves as much as possible. Phil's question: He knows all the girls' names, but none of the guys names discern. As you said earlier, you know we're looking for these more.

so we're finding more and I said that could be one reason why we're finding more. One reason, but what we're getting at is, you know why are we all of a sudden shooting them down? And to add to that, you know the NORAD Commander for instance, said that uh, when the first spy balloon was crossing over Americans and Canadian airspace. one of the reasons that he couldn't take action was because his assessment was that it didn't pose a military threat or have hostile intent, so he couldn't take action there. So it seems like maybe that protocol has changed or has his ability to make that call where there is not an imminent threat, militarily or physically might have changed.

So can you explain to us what change? Why are we shooting them down all of a sudden? yo pull that up I Feel like I took care of that in my opening statement, but I'm happy to revisit it I mean really two reasons here? Uh, and these are in certainly in well in both cases, they're different I think we need to separate the Chinese Bible and we knew what it was. We knew where it was going, we knew what he was trying to do, and by not taking it down I mean it was also a huge payload. Like I said, the size of three school buses. So really, the option of shooting that down over land wasn't a legitimate option because somebody really could have gotten hurt.

and we used the the time available to us knowing what this thing was all about. We used that time to study it, to learn from it, to collect on it, then taking it down at the earliest opportunity in the water and we have retrieved some of that debris off the bottom and we're studying that. Hang on a second. I'll be right there.

Um, so let's separate that from these other three and these other three. What are some of the differences? Altitude's a big difference. Jackie Sixty thousand plus well outside commercial air traffic concerns. These three were right on the border of it.

so there was a legitimate concern there. Chinese by balloon. We knew exactly what that thing was and we knew what it was trying to do. And we saw it.

Jackie As it slowed down, sped up, maneuvered a little bit. Um, trying to get a look at what we believe to be sensitive military sites. These other three. they didn't have propulsion.

they weren't being maneuvered. it was basically there had been being driven by the by the wind. We don't think we don't We don't know for sure whether they had. oh, that's Mass surveillance aspect to them, but we can't rule it out.

so there was a little bit. There was enough uncertainty there. Uh, that. Again, out of an abundance of caution doing The Prudent thing, the President directed that they get taken down and I I get where you're going.

Is this the standard going forward and we're gonna. we're gonna dive into this. We're gonna learn from these three events. Um, we're going to continue to study what happened.

We're gonna have an interagency effort that helps us get around the policy implications here and we'll see where this goes. But bottom line for President Biden is you got to do the right thing for the American people for our Safety and Security these yet as theirs. uh I I Can't say whether that's strange or not since we're sort of in Uncharted Territory here no pun intended. but we don't.

You know, we don't We don't know. and I suspect that that hey, go ahead I'm I'm I'm basically done I'm basically done sir. what's your name sir? Oh from CBS Okay, um, has the payload been recovered from South Carolina Yet the the large so-called payload bets? Yeah, as I said, some of the debris. certainly.

uh, they were able to take things off the surface like the next day actually that afternoon. Uh, some of the balloon. uh, fabric. Um, and in the days since they have been able to Sean cubby, they're the National Security spokesperson uh, house who did say that there was no question in their minds uh, that the balloon they shot down over South Carolina a week ago was a surveillance asset and that they know that China has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence purpose.

Yeah, I'm listening too. Man, No. I'm listening it additional uh, intelligence as it relates to the three other balloons uh, that have been shot down over the last uh few days. Yeah, they said that might have Arisen simply because of the closer scrutiny.

The U.S uh was uh, putting towards these types of objects and Frames should be a very wealthy man. I mean it's gonna, it could take it could take a long time. Uh, given uh, weather conditions and the degree to which when we have to protect the safety of the diversion. One last question, you said you were unsure of the surveillance capabilities of these latest objects.

Um, last week we were told several times that every precaution was taken to ensure that the sensitive installations were covered. We don't know exactly what you all did, but has there been or are you gonna find out? Well, it has there been a posture change Nationwide regarding all of these sensitive Uh sites if you're proactively, if you're um, let me just put a fork in this. If this, if if the implication is that, you know, uh, there's some sort of blanket now security policy for every base on the continental United States The answer is no. We do have protocols, particularly when we we know that um, surveillance is going to occur like in the open Skies tree with Russia For instance, when all that's scheduled and laid out and when you know that there's going to be an open Skies flight by uh by by Russia in sign language, that's what we did.

Uh, Chinese by balloon will always do that I will never talk about that. What precautions we're going to make at any given base at any given time. But I Always do what we need to do to protect our nation's Secrets bro. don't talk about it.

We're like what the I'm asking questions man. okay um the report from Uh Odie and I recently that that goes over this in that Odni report about unidentified aerial phenomena. It says there were 247 unidentified aerial phenomenon reports since March of 2021, some of which have quote demonstrated unusual flight characteristics, questions, abilities. So can you say why the President just recently within the last couple weeks started ordering some of these objects to be shot down and why there weren't any orders throughout 2021 or throughout 2022.

it's Very. It's very simple. it comes down to what sort of Safety and Security threats and risk we're talking about um and uh and also uh it comes down to a lot to it's our ability to attract to track, detect and engage having come from the panel and I can tell you sign language. um uh.

While we may not be able to know what each and every one is doing, some of the big concern there was that um a lot. Not many of those reports were happening around. our training ranges were happening around air training ranges. so combat Pilots were seeing these things and it was and there was a potential impact to the safety of flight of our our Pilots But you may not have but a fleeting moment on some of these things to to see it and so it's different in these cases.

Um, we had I don't know that Mom and Dad is by like attack time like that and touching the the head those kinds of things it comes down it's like I think it's Safety and Security First and foremost, this is like that time though is a matter of capability. You have better capabilities now and then. We are certainly improving our capabilities now. and and as I said, the President has directed The National Security team to dig into this deeper from an interagency effort and to see what uh, if other Uh improvements might need to make.

I mean look just just by adapting the way the radar parameters are set, we have improved our ability to detect and again I Said that could be one reason why we're seeing more. Um, so you said that the debris found on Frozen Waters or in remote areas and these are also like huge objects and they were shot down by Nissan So how optimistic are you that you will be able to collect enough debris to really get an idea of what these objects were? We won't know until we get on site to see. Um, you know how much damage was done, not just by the missile strike, but by the fall from from a very high altitude and as you said in one case, on sea ice. so we'll just have to see jump.

Yeah, uh, thank you. John The Secretary of State Lincoln plan to meet with this Chinese counterpart this week at the Munich Security conference. I'm referring to the State Department for the Secretary's schedule I I Don't know, and um, you've been able to. What have you been able to learn more? uh or not you but the government since these uh objects were shot down I mean you? You just alluded to the fact that, uh, that you've not been able to I Enjoy watching this though.

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