United States military fighter jets shot again at a mysterious object, aka UFO flying in the sky near the border with Canada. The public also wondered whether the object that was shot had anything to do with aliens or not.
US Air Force General Glen VanHerck as Head of the US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command said the US military had yet to identify the object that was shot.
Asked whether the object was extraterrestrial in origin, VanHerck said he had not ruled out the possibility that it was alien-related.
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"I'm going to leave the intelligence community and the counterintelligence community to find out. I haven't ruled anything out yet," VanHerck said, as quoted by Reuters, Monday (13/2/2023).
"Right now we are continuing to assess any threats and potential threats, which are unknown, approaching North America by trying to identify them," he continued.
VanHerck's comments were made while giving a briefing after a US F-16 jet shot down an octagonal object flying over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border.
This is the fourth flying object shot over North America in the past week. The incident also follows the shooting down of a Chinese balloon allegedly used for espionage on February 4.
A high-ranking US military said it had not found any evidence indicating that the three objects came from outer space. VanHerck said the military could not immediately determine what helped the three objects fly or where they came from.
"We call them objects, not balloons, for a reason," says VanHerck.
The incident of shooting a mysterious object in the sky of America also appeared at a time when the Pentagon was increasingly diligent in investigating UFO sightings by members of the military. UFO itself currently has a new official name, namely unidentified aerial phenomenon or UAP.
A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released last month said there were 366 UFO sightings reported by the US military, most of which were balloons, birds, drones or flying debris. However, there are 171 sightings whose origins cannot be explained.