“We don’t know for sure if they had surveillance capabilities, but we can’t rule it out,” said the White House Homeland Security spokesman, John Kirby, at a press conference.
The White House also affirmed on Monday that there are no signs of extraterrestrial activity in relation to these unidentified objects.
“There’s no indication of aliens (…) with these recent shootdowns, I wanted to make sure the American people knew about it”the press secretary told reporters Karine Jean Pierre.
A US general sowed doubts about possible aliens
On the eve, General Glen VanHerck, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), said he could “rule nothing out” in response to a question from a journalist about a possible extraterrestrial origin, a phrase that became viral.
During the last few days they have torn down three mysterious “objects”: Friday over Alaska (northwest), Saturday over Yukon in northwestern Canada and Sunday over Lake Huron in the northern United States.
It is not clear if they are related to a chinese globe much larger shot down by a fighter jet over the Atlantic days before.
On Sunday, US fighters shot down a new object that was flying over Lake Huron on Biden’s orderson the US-Canada border, “out of an abundance of caution.”
US officials say images of the first balloon show it consisted of surveillance equipment that could intercept telecommunications.
The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, assured that it was his mission “Monitoring Strategic Sites in the Continental United States”.
Source: Ambito
