The US military shot down another one unidentified object on Sunday, the fourth such shooting in eight days and so far there is no explanation for them.
At least one senior official will not rule out the possibility that they are of foreign origin.
“I’ll let the intelligence community and the counterintelligence community figure that out,” NORAD commander Gen. Glen VanHerck told reporters Sunday when asked about the possibility of aliens. “We haven’t ruled anything out at this point.”
A suspected Chinese spy balloon shut down the nation when it was spotted over Montana in January. It was shot down while crossing the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month.
Since then, at least three other objects have been blown out of the sky. One was initially described as a balloon, but VanHerck demurred when asked if these additional objects were also balloons.
“I won’t classify them as balloons. We call them ‘objects’ for a reason,” he said. “Certainly the Chinese spy balloon event off the coast of South Carolina was clearly a balloon. These were objects.”
He also said that he is not sure how the objects fly.
“It could be some type of gas balloon in a structure or it could be some type of propulsion system,” he said.
One of the objects, which fell over Alaska on Friday, was described as “cylindrical and silver gray” And with “no identifiable propulsion system.” Another, shot down along the US-Canada border, was described as a “small cylindrical object”. The third, which came down on Lake Huron on Sunday, was described by officials as “an octagonal structure” with arches.
“We will remain vigilant about our airspace.” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Friday. “We will remain vigilant in the skies above the United States.”
It is unclear whether the downed objects are related to the growing number of sightings of what the Pentagon is now calling “unidentified aerial phenomena,” their preferred term for UFOs.
Last year, an American Airlines pilot reported a “long cylindrical object” in the sky over New Mexico, and several US Navy pilots have attempted to track small, fast-moving objects, including some “with no means of propulsion perceptible”.
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