A new unidentified flying object was shot down last night in the United States. A case reminiscent of the case of the Chinese flying balloon destroyed by Washington. In Congress, elected officials on both political sides are urging the Biden administration to provide more information.
In the United States, a fighter plane now takes off at the slightest radar anomaly since the episode of the Chinese spy balloon. Last night, the United States again shot down an unidentified object. It is the fourth destroyed since the first balloon discovered ten days ago in American airspace, a Chinese machine said Washington.
>> After the “Chinese balloon”, the incidents multiply in the North American sky
Today, these balloons are at the heart of many concerns. Between espionage or UFOs, the political class asks for details and preaches for more military means. “It is time for the United States to take this turn to investshot, assured House Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Mike Turner on CNN. We need more sophisticated radar systems. We have them, but they are not deployed to protect United States pilots. An integrated missile defense system. We helped invest in Israel having such a system. We don’t have any. This is a decisive moment where we must discuss. It is a threat and we must respond to it.”
The White House asks Americans to trust it
Even today, the Pentagon keeps a form of secrecy around these objects observed in the sky. Every signal, whether picked up over Montana, Alaska, or Michigan, raises many questions that the Pentagon does not answer. For Jim Himes, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Democrats in this Intelligence Committee and elected from Connecticut, this fuels all fantasies.
“What troubles me is that I see some kind of pattern when looking at social media in the morning, he complains. You know, all of a sudden it’s massive speculation about alien invasions, one more Chinese action or Russian action. In the absence of information, people will fill the void with anxiety and other things.”
“I wish the administration were a little quicker to tell us everything they know.”
Jim Himes, Democratic leader of the Intelligence Committeeat franceinfo
The administration calls on Americans not to worry, explains Karine Jean-Pierre, spokesperson for the White House. “The promise is that we will always stalk, we will always detect and we will always defend our airspace. This is what the American people must expect.“, she said on MSNBC. Espionage or not, the debris of the various downed machines, once recovered, should make it possible to know more.