The Pentagon has refused to rule out the recent unidentified objects shot out of the sky could be aliens – after the latest was gunned down over Lake Huron on Sunday.
US Air Force General Glen VanHerck said intelligence services were exploring all avenues – including the three most recent objects may be linked to extraterrestrials.
Asked whether he had ruled out ‘aliens or extraterrestrials’, he said: ‘I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven’t ruled out anything.’
‘At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.’
The shoot down on Sunday occurred after the ‘octagonal’ object flew near a sensitive US military site in Montana – and had ‘potential surveillance capabilities.’
An F-16 fighter jet shot it down from around 20,000ft over the Great Lakes at 2:42pm – after previously destroying two other crafts over Alaska and Canada, and a Chinese balloon over South Carolina.
The senior Air Force executive said they are still unsure how the three objects were staying aloft, as they currently have unknown propulsion systems. He added: ‘We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason.’
He added: ‘I believe this is the first time within United States or American airspace that NORAD or United States Northern Command has taken kinetic action against an airborne object.’
VanHerck said that unlike the Chinese spy balloon, these three were all similar in size and speed when they were gunned out of airspace. One reason for their removal from the sky was because they threatened civilian aviation.
As the Pentagon more closely scrutinizing US airspace, authorities are not ruling out that there may be more shoot downs in coming days.
Speaking about the most recent object shot down on Sunday, a Department of Defense spokesperson said: ‘Based on its flight path and data we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites.
‘We did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assess it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities. Our team will now work to recover the object in an effort to learn more.’
This is the fourth object the US has shot down in eight days.
The object on Sunday was shot down because of the increased ‘abundance of caution.’ It has not yet been identified.
A spokesperson said on Sunday night: ‘We will remain vigilant. The operations in the last week have been successful in taking down the potential threats.’
The Pentagon added: ‘Its path and altitude raised concerns, including that it could be a hazard to civil aviation. The location chosen for this shoot down afforded us the opportunity to avoid impact to people on the ground while improving chances for debris recovery.
‘There are no indications of any civilians hurt or otherwise affected.’
The revelation that the Air Force are not ruling out that this could be extraterrestrial comes after a report in December revealed The Department of Defense has analyzed ‘hundreds’ of UFO sightings from its service members since last year.
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