Joe Biden has maintained a no-nonsense demeanor throughout his political career. When speaking with reporters, he is renowned for having a sarcastic tongue and being unashamedly willing to defend himself.
President Trump was asked about UFO incidents that the US military had looked into during a news conference on Thursday. He appeared to be about to respond when he quickly cut off the conversation and turned away from the reporters, who yelled questions after him.
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“Are you compromised by your family’s business relations in China?” one reporter said, which provoked a snide remark from the president.
“Give me a break, man,” the president said, though he did not deny the accusation.
Confusion erupted as a result of the president’s admission of ignorance, with many Americans asking what else might have been fired out of the sky besides a Chinese spy balloon.
“Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the incursion by China’s high-altitude balloon, our military, through the North American Aerospace Defense Command — so-called NOR- — NORAD — closely scrutinized the — our airspace, including enhancing our radar to pick up more slow-moving objects above our country and around the world,” he said.
“In doing so, they tracked three unidentified objects: one in Alaska, Canada, and over Lake Huron in the Midwest.
“They acted in accordance with established parameters for determining how to deal with unidentified aerial objects in U.S. airspace,” the president said.
“At their recommendation, I gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazards to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities.
“We acted in consultation with the Canadian government. I spoke personally with Prime Minister Trudeau and Ca- — from Canada on Saturday,” he said.
“And just as critically, we acted out of an abundance of caution and at an opportunity that allowed us to take down these — these objects safely.
“Our military and the Canadian military are seeking to recover the debris so we can learn more about these three objects. Our intelligence community is still assessing all three incidences. They’re reporting to me daily and will continue their urgent efforts to do so, and I will communicate that to the Congress,” the president said.
“We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were. But nothing — nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from other — any other country,” he said.
On Tuesday, the US Navy released stunning photos of what appeared to be a Chinese spy balloon that were taken from the air by military troops. It is currently on route to an FBI facility for further investigation into this horrific espionage incident after being carefully removed from some wreckage floating on an ocean boat.
CNN reported: “On Monday, Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), told reporters that the balloon was roughly 200 feet tall and carried a payload weighing more than a couple of thousand pounds. US officials had been tracking the balloon for several days by the time it appeared in the skies over Montana. President Joe Biden said over the weekend that he’d directed the US military to shoot down the balloon as soon as it was safe to do so, but officials said it posed a risk to civilians and property on the ground.”
“[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about,” the general said. “So glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.”
“[T]his gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that time frame was well worth its value to collect over,” he said.
“US officials also determined that the balloon did not pose a significant risk in its ability to gather intelligence,” the report said.
“A senior defense official said last week that the balloon had ‘limited additive value’ from an intelligence collection perspective. Nevertheless, VanHerck said Monday that he and the commander of US Strategic Command took “maximum precaution” to prevent China’s ability to collect intelligence,” it said.
