{"id":551531,"date":"2023-02-14T02:58:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lawmakers-demand-biden-address-nation-on-ufo-incursions\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T02:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:58:50","slug":"lawmakers-demand-biden-address-nation-on-ufo-incursions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lawmakers-demand-biden-address-nation-on-ufo-incursions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lawmakers demand Biden address nation on UFO incursions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fe4cb7335\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fe4cb7335\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lawmakers-demand-biden-address-nation-on-ufo-incursions\/#Lawmakers_demand_Biden_address_nation_on_UFO_incursions\" >Lawmakers demand Biden address nation on UFO incursions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lawmakers_demand_Biden_address_nation_on_UFO_incursions\"><\/span>Lawmakers demand Biden address nation on UFO incursions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/brayscott_051723ap-alex-brandon_frustration.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Frustration on Capitol Hill is mounting after a string of aerial objects were shot down over U.S. and Canadian airspace in the last few days, raising a long list of questions that lawmakers say President Biden should publicly address.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been shot down over North America since Friday, and the Pentagon has provided little information on what the objects were or where they came from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe president owes the American people an explanation, direct and on camera, of what we know about these \u2018objects\u2019 and what steps he\u2019s taking to protect America\u2019s sovereign airspace,\u201d Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)\u00a0said in a Monday statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, also joined in the calls for President Biden to address the nation, noting the unprecedented nature of the military shooting down aircraft in U.S. airspace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNORAD\u2019s been around almost 65 years,\u201d he said of the command in charge of patrolling U.S. and Canadian airspace. \u201cWe\u2019ve never shot anything down, and in eight days we\u2019ve shot down four things. That\u2019s a pretty big deal. It doesn\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio added in a tweet: \u201cAmericans need to hear directly about this from their President today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House wouldn\u2019t commit to a public address from Biden during a briefing on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been, I think, as transparent as we can be,\u201d The White House\u2019s national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters. \u201cI won\u2019t speak for the President\u2019s personal speaking schedule.\u00a0But, I mean, he has been deeply engaged in every one of these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Kirby added that Biden is \u201cdirecting his team to make sure we are properly consulting and briefing not just members of Congress, but state leaders as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a vacuum of information about the objects, the White House said Monday there is no evidence of \u201caliens or extraterrestrial activity\u201d with the incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said people were \u201cscared\u201d and \u201cbelieving crazy things being said on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lack of transparency from the Biden admin and simple explanations are owed to the people,\u201d\u00a0Greene <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRepMTG%2Fstatus%2F1625172244413706240%3Fs%3D20&amp;data=05%7C01%7CCMeyn%40TheHill.com%7Cfc1f57bbced54c1aefb408db0e0e587d%7C9e5488e2e83844f6886cc7608242767e%7C0%7C0%7C638119227011188772%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BTBVotjqU2SbSUB%2FogS5DvN2wphHVRBC%2BIl81bYg%2Fng%3D&amp;reserved=0\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first UFO was shot down on Friday afternoon over Alaska, the second was taken out on Saturday over the Yukon in northwest Canada and the third over Lake Huron in Michigan on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All three incidents came about a week after a Chinese spy balloon capable of collecting communications intelligence was shot down off the coast of South Carolina after passing over much of the nation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>While the calls for answers are mostly from Republicans, Democrats from states that experienced a UFO incursion are joining in on the frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan lawmakers Sen. Gary Peters (D) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D) echoed requests for more information, as did Sen. Jon Tester from Montana, where the Chinese balloon had lingered earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Biden should speak out about the aerial objects, Tester said Monday, \u201cThat\u2019s up to him.\u201d He added that he still hoped to glean more information on \u201cwhat they know, when they knew it, and what the plan is,\u201d through hearings of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which he chairs.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A number of Democratic senators said they remain unsatisfied by the answers coming from the administration so far, but were hopeful that a briefing of all senators on Monday might shed more light on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said he\u2019s \u201cnot satisfied yet\u201d with information provided by administration, while Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va) added: \u201cThey\u2019ve been doing a good job so far, but I do have a lot of questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of UFO shoot-downs has befuddled Americans, who are wondering why the U.S. is suddenly recognizing and shooting down a flurry of these objects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Melissa Dalton, the assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, told reporters on Sunday the military has \u201cbeen more closely scrutinizing our air space at these altitudes\u201d with enhanced radar.<\/p>\n<p>That \u201cmay at least partly explain the increase in objects that we\u2019ve detected over the past week,\u201d Dalton said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) said in a Monday statement if it was true the U.S. has just now opened up its radar technologies to detect UFOs, that would amount to \u201cstaggering intelligence failures.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHow long have these objects operated in our airspace with impunity?\u201d Gallagher asked, demanding \u201canswers\u201d from Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are times to err on the side of secrecy in national security operations. But when our fighter pilots are shooting down presumably hostile aerial objects all across America, it\u2019s long past time for transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) raised similar questions while speaking on the floor on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat in the world is going on? Has the Biden administration just dialed the sensitivity of our radars all the way up? If so, what are the objects that we are just now noticing for the very first time?\u201d McConnell asked. \u201cAre they benign <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> projects and wayward weather balloons, or something more nefarious that we\u2019ve somehow been missing all this time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Belgium that the objects did not pose a military threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do, however, present a risk to civil aviation and potentially an intelligence collection threat, and we\u2019ll get to the bottom of it,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canadian and U.S. crews are in the midst of recovering the downed UFOs for closer inspection. The Biden administration on Monday also announced an interagency task force to investigate the UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>There are no known links of the UFOs to China or any other country or entity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have been some indications that some of the objects shot down were balloons, however that has not been confirmed by the Pentagon or White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/13\/politics\/pentagon-memo-canada-small-balloon\/index.html\">CNN\u00a0reported Monday\u00a0on a Pentagon memo<\/a> that the object shot down over Canada on Saturday appeared to be a \u201csmall, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/3-objects-flying-us-canada-balloons-schumer-congress\/story?id=97055660\">suggested in a\u00a0S<\/a>unday interview with ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d\u00a0the two UFOs shot down on Friday and Saturday were balloons.<\/p>\n<p>But the Pentagon has said those objects were much smaller than the Chinese spy balloon, which weighed about 2,000 pounds. And the Lake Huron object was an octagonal shape.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Pentagon expressed high confidence in identifying the Chinese spy balloon, which Beijing admitted was theirs but has referred to as a weather balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Also in contrast to the UFOs, the Chinese spy balloon was tracked for days before the U.S. decided to take it down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Chinese spy balloon, which was hovering about 60,000 feet in the air, the UFOs were flying at about 40,000 feet or below and posed a threat to civilian airspace, according to the Pentagon, leading to a swift decision each time to take them out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Emily Brooks and Al Weaver contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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