U.S. Military Shoots Down 3 UFOs In One Weekend (I'm Not Kidding)
It was a harsh Monday morning as I woke up with the memory of last night’s Super Bowl debacle lingering in my head. An erroneous holding penalty by officials in the last minute of the game essentially robbed the Eagles of a Super Bowl victory. That’s what the pundits were talking about on NBC News this morning.
Then came the story of a third unidentified flying object shot down over North America this past weekend. That’s three objects in three days. The reporter, NBC’s Brie Jackson, felt obliged to finish the report, perhaps trying to calm us, the American people, by saying “and Defense officials say there was no indication of aliens with these recent take downs.”
Comforting. Very comforting.
Just what the hell is going on with the world? Has everything turned upside down overnight?
Certainly, non of this was unexpected. But the shit is flying so fast and furious it’s going to take me a moment to adjust. And another cup of coffee.
Let’s recap what’s happened since Friday, a mere three days ago.
On Feb. 9, the U.S. detected an unknown object flying over remote regions of Northern Alaska.
White House spokesman John Kirby described the object as being the size of a small car and flying at about 40,000 feet. The WH assessed that this posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flights and on Friday, Feb. 10, President Joe Biden ordered the thing be shot down.
Oddly, the Air Force could see the object well enough to determine that it had no pilot, yet couldn’t tell what it was. When asked about the event, while emerging from his helicopter, Biden simply said “Success.”
Later that day, Alaska Governor Dunleavy issued the following statement:
“Today’s announcement by the Pentagon that an unidentified object was shot down by an F-22 from Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson over Alaska’s coastline raises serious national security concerns that should concern every American. I want to thank our Alaska-based military for eliminating the potential threat before it was flying over our land.”
On Saturday, Feb. 10, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that an unidentified object flying over the Yukon was detected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), first flying over Alaska and then passing into Canadian airspace.
To be clear, this is the second object seen flying over Alaska.
Trudeau contacted Biden who ordered the thing shot down. Immediately. No dallying about like he did with the Chinese ballon incident. Pilots who shot the object down said it was the size of three school buses. Holy shit. That’s big. No wonder they brought it down.
On Sunday, Feb. 12, the U.S. detected an object flying at 20,000 ft over Montana and near the Canadian border. The Pentagon determined that the object didn’t pose a military threat but could interfere with domestic air travel.
This is of course, the third object in as many days.
U.S. Air Force jets shot the object down at 2:42 pm local time over Lake Heron near the US-Canadian border. The object was reported to be “octagonal in structure.”
This third object brings to mind something that John Keel noted in his book Operation Trojan Horse:
"The state of Nebraska has a long and complicated history of UFO sightings. During the heavy but little-publicized flap of July-August 1966, at 10 P.M., a group of four witnesses reportedly viewed "a large octagon-shaped object with colored lights . . . the lights dimmed and brightened, and the object swooped twice over."
Needless to say, the current situation is trending on social media and has spawned countless memes. Here is a sample:
Can you imagine aliens flying across hundreds of galaxies over millions of light years, only to arrive at planet Earth, and find out this is our leader 👇👉🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/R7Bca5HvqQ
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 12, 2023
I’ll bet Melania knows a thing or two about those unidentified flying objects. pic.twitter.com/L6JcEk0PNp
— 😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) February 13, 2023
#ufotwitter #UFOs
— ArronTKO (@AzzioTk) February 12, 2023
Aliens: Hello humans, we come in peac-
Government: pic.twitter.com/PyClHFgvMX
And of course, the good-for-all occasions classic:
What do you think of this alien invasion then? pic.twitter.com/hMpzhSstYJ
— The People (@WonPeople) February 12, 2023
Nonetheless, there has been no official statement from the White House. The pressure is mounting for Biden to step in front of the camera and give Americans the straight talk on just what the hell is going on over our skies.
One Democratic congressman told CNN on Sunday night that Biden's silence on the matter was "odd" and that "people are freaked out," adding that we've heard more from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the matter than the President.
Sunday morning, on ABC's This Week, Schumer said that he was told at a briefing by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan that the objects shot down over Canada and Alaska were likely balloons.
But this contradicts statements made by the Pentagon.
On Sunday night, while the Super Bowl was being waged, Defense officials spoke to the press.
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, confirmed that three objects had been shot down by the U.S. military. He wanted to make a clear distinction however, between the Chinese owned balloon shot down off the coast of North Carolina on Feb. 4, and the three objects taken down over the weekend.
According to the General, the Chinese one “was clearly a balloon. These are objects. I’m not able to categorize how they stay aloft.”
So what were they? Come on, everyone wants to know, were they aliens?
The General declined to rule out, at this point, any possibilities, including the possibility that these objects were extraterrestrial.
When pressed on the matter, another Defense official commented that there is “no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.”
Certainly there is something unusual going on here. The Chinese ballon for instance, was quickly identified. Melissa Dalton, assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, stated “we had a basis and intelligence to know definitively that its point of origin was the People’s Republic of China.”
Regarding the current slew of objects, no such certainty exists. The ambiguous nature of the whole situation and the seeming obfuscation by our military is stirring up, understandably, speculation and concern.
One lawmaker who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee told CNN on Monday morning:
“Ambiguity is fuel for conspiracy theorists, and I hope information is shared expeditiously . . . Something truthful is more important than something reassuring. Trust in government requires communication from government.”
Sure, sure. But the real question is, can you handle the truth?
Update: Feb. 13, 10:18 P.M.
The White House held a press conference Monday afternoon updating the public regarding the objects shot down over the weekend, with an emphasis on answering the 'alien' question head on.
After a brief update on the ongoing crisis in Turkey and Syria, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got right into it, commenting:
"I just wanted to make sure we address this from the White House. I know there have been questions and concerns about this. But there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. Again, there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. I wanted to make sure that the American people knew that, all of you knew that. And it was important for us to say that from here because we've been hearing a lot about it."
For the remainder of the 50 minute press conference, Admiral John Kirby answered questions from the press regarding the unidentified flying objects. You can watch it on Youtube here:
There’s a certain flippancy in the opening remarks by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, with accompanying laughter from the press. This is offset by the dead serious tone of John Kirby and really, the over all approach by the government and media since the first object was sighted on Friday.
This must be what it feels like to be caught in the revolving door between full disclosure and denial.
The facts are we’re sending real fighter jets to shoot real missiles at objects in the sky. And it ain’t cheap.
The F-22 uses an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at the cost of $472,000 per missile. That’s a hefty sum and you can double that when, as with the object downed over Lake Heron, the first shot misses.
But that’s all relative. If the object turns out to be nothing more than a random kid’s balloon, that’s expensive. But if it’s a scout ship for a Mars attack invasion force, it’s peanuts.
Ah, a UFO you say?
Of course the UFO disclosure community have got their panties all in a bunch over this one. And why not? But I wouldn’t bank on it being the disclosure that they’re hoping for. Just take a look at history.
Speaking of which, here we have echoes of Roswell.
The Roswell Incident of course began with the newspaper headline on July 8, 1947, “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”
That was subsequently ‘debunked’ to the recovery of mundane rubber and metallic debris from a military balloon.
No doubt, the ‘weather balloon’ explanation has been the go-to for government’s debunking UFOs since the beginning of time. That and ‘swamp gas’ of course.
Now, this current situation offers an interesting twist. They’re starting off by implying that it is an ‘unidentified flying object.’ It will most likely turn out to be just a balloon. And a handy way for the administration to cover up its negligence of not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon at the get-go.
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