After days of tracking and shooting down unidentified “objects” over North America, President Joe Biden directed an interagency team be established “to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety or security risks,” White House National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said today, the Daily Beast reports.
Biden will coordinate the team through national security adviser Jake Sullivan with the aim of determining how the U.S. should respond. A Chinese spy balloon and three “objects” have been shot down just this month, raising questions about what the U.S. policy ought to be when “objects” are detected if they don’t appear to pose a threat to civilians. The Pentagon said it had concerns that at least one of the “objects” had “potential surveillance capabilities,” but it’s still unclear what the objects’ purposes were. Efforts are ongoing to recover debris to uncover what their capabilities are, Kirby said. It has been “difficult to find” the debris, however, since some objects were shot down over remote terrain or ice, he said. The U.S. is continuing to monitor for more objects but as of Monday afternoon, there are “no active tracks,” Kirby said.
According to unconfirmed and unreliable sources, President Biden reportedly proposed an initiative that was quickly shot down by his staffers and by DOJ officials.
Mr. Biden reportedly expressed concern that deploying US Military resources to shoot down the flying objects would siphon off significant amounts of cash from the pentagon budget. Hence, he proposed that video game experts be given permission to take aim at the unidentified flying objects in lieu of the US fighter jets.
“Allowing video game enthusiasts to take aim at the flying objects will save us a lot of money,” Biden said, “and it will provide video game enthusiasts with the proper training grounds to sharpen their crafts.”
But White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday that the President’s proposal was quickly shot down by his own staffers and by DOJ officials.
“The President’s proposal was shot down so quickly,” she said, “that one DOJ official commented, ‘If only our fighter jets could shoot down those flying objects as quickly as we shot down the President’s crazy proposal, everything would be fine’!”
Well, at least he’s finally admitting that he doesn’t know what’s flying!
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