{"id":1417,"date":"2023-02-17T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:43:35","slug":"were-they-a-threat-biden-white-house-releases-update-about-ufos-shot-down-over-canada-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Were They A Threat? Biden White House Releases Update About UFOs Shot Down Over Canada, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Tuesday press briefing, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the American people that the U.S. intelligence community now considers the three unidentified flying objects shot down on the order of President Joe Biden over Deadhorse, Alaska; Yukon, Canada; and Lake Huron, to be \u201cused for commercial or benign purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kirby explained that this determination was made based on images of the objects and is a preliminary one pending recovery of debris, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/white-house-says-leading-explanation-3-downed-unidentified-objects-com-rcna70588\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spokesman added, \u201cI want to caveat that we haven\u2019t found the debris. We\u2019re still doing the best we can with the observations that were made by the pilots, with the flight profile data that we\u2019ve tried to collect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost immediately a torrent of severe criticism began to flow toward the White House, adding to renewed doubts about\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/hunter-biden-31-million-chinese-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biden\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0capacity to lead the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Streiff writing for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/streiff\/2023\/02\/14\/the-white-house-describes-the-objects-we-shot-down-as-totally-benign-n703607\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RedState<\/a>, who is experienced as a former U.S. Army infantry officer, CGSC grad, and Army Operations Center alum, wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added, \u201cIn all seriousness, it is obvious that NORAD is a seething, effervescent puddle of failure and incompetence. Shortly after the actual Chinese spy balloon was shot down, NORTHCOM\/NORAD commander General Glen VanHerck had this to offer, \u2018I will tell you we did not detect those threats [the previous alleged Chinese violations of US airspace] and that\u2019s a domain awareness gap we have to figure out.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Streiff\u2019s assertions would seem to hold at first look, with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/us-military-first-shot-unknown-octagonal-object-lake-huron-missed\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0reporting that not only were the three \u2018benign\u2019 objects shot down evidently without Biden being fully aware of what the Air Force was shooting at but compounded by the fact that the first missile fired at the object over\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/breaking-white-house-john-kirby-release-update-about-ufos-shot-down-by-norad-over-alaska-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Huron<\/a>\u00a0missed, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/us-military-first-shot-unknown-octagonal-object-lake-huron-missed\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/trump-created-a-doj-task-force-protecting-u-s-from-chinese-spy-balloons-joe-biden-shut-it-down-over-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gen. Mark Milley<\/a>\u00a0told a press conference that the missile \u201clanded harmlessly in the water of Lake Huron,\u201d he further explained that no wreckage has been recovered citing \u201crocky terrain\u201d and \u201cother difficult conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTwo, three, and four are not yet recovered. They are in very difficult terrain,\u201d Milley said, according to NBC News. \u201cThe second one off the coast of Alaska, that\u2019s in some really, really difficult terrain in the Arctic Circle, with very, very low temperatures in the minus 40s. The second one is in the Canadian Rockies and the Yukon \u2014 very difficult to get that one \u2014 and the third one is in Lake Huron, probably a couple hundred feet depth, so we\u2019ll get them eventually, but it\u2019s going to take some time to recover those.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/were-they-a-threat-biden-white-house-releases-update-about-ufos-shot-down-over-canada-alaska\/\">https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/were-they-a-threat-biden-white-house-releases-update-about-ufos-shot-down-over-canada-alaska\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Tuesday press briefing, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the American people that the U.S. intelligence community now considers the three unidentified flying objects shot down on the order of President Joe Biden over Deadhorse, Alaska; Yukon, Canada; and Lake Huron, to be \u201cused for commercial or benign purposes.\u201d Kirby explained that this determination was made based on images of the objects and is a preliminary one pending recovery of debris, according to&nbsp;NBC News. 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