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US Hasn't Ruled Out Alien Origins For Latest Objects Shot Down

The US general in charge of NORAD said he hasn’t ruled out any possibilities on the source of three objects shot from the skies over the US and Canada — including that they might be of extraterrestrial origins.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: In this handout photo provided by NASA, the first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to be previewed by U.S. President Joe Biden, during a briefing with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) leaders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium on July 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. According to NASA, the telescope images are the highest-resolution images of the infrared universe ever captured. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: In this handout photo provided by NASA, the first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to be previewed by U.S. President Joe Biden, during a briefing with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) leaders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium on July 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. According to NASA, the telescope images are the highest-resolution images of the infrared universe ever captured. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

The US general in charge of NORAD said he hasn’t ruled out any possibilities on the source of three objects shot from the skies over the US and Canada — including that they might be of extraterrestrial origins.

General Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, made the comment when asked Sunday if the US had excluded the possibility that the objects shot down over Alaska, Canada and Michigan were “aliens or extraterrestrials.”

“I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out,” VanHerck told a briefing. “I haven’t ruled out anything at this point.”

WATCH: US officials are saying that another unidentified object has been shot down over Michigan. Natalie Obiko Pearson reports.Source: Bloomberg
WATCH: US officials are saying that another unidentified object has been shot down over Michigan. Natalie Obiko Pearson reports.Source: Bloomberg

Although the US says the large balloon that it shot down off of South Carolina on Feb. 4 was a Chinese spying platform, which China denies, Pentagon officials acknowledged Sunday that they don’t know who was behind smaller objects downed since then. They said the US military has increased scrutiny of items in US airspace and the sensitive of radars that search the skies.

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