NY Post Editorial Board: Balloon Mysteries: Team Biden Needs to Explain What in Hell Is Going On

After four “balloon” Shootdowns in nine Days plus official denials after This could be an alien thing from space, according to one general.Only one thing is certain: The Biden administration must get more facts out and provide explanations or conspiracy theories will reign.

Monday’s White House statement stated that President Joe Biden does not intend to explain his decision. Ridiculous.

Are there more balloons coming? Or has US policy changed to allow for more balloons? “down them all” approach — and if so, why? The White House may be desperate to prove its toughness after being caught trying to allow the first Chinese spycraft to proceed.

Biden so far has not offered anything more than His State of the Union boasts a few words speech, plus Telemundo makes a vague claim The first one was “no major breach.” Yet reports suggest Biden wasn’t told about that first balloon for several days. Was That policy? Are you still a part of it?

The nation’s learned that three Trump-era balloons were only ID’d as likely spycraft long after the fact. And it’s Get it now The Pentagon secretly announced that it was aware that many UFOs that were listed as such were actually spy balloons a year back.

Plus, Washington Is suddenly sanctioning It claims that spy-balloon operations were being carried out by Chinese companies. Or explain the timing. It appears like another retroactive effort. Look tough.

China, meanwhile, Protests against US balloons Crossing It territory. We hope so — though it’s also true that Beijing Claims lots of territory that the rest of the world doesn’t acknowledge. So perhaps the Pentagon’s denial is true, though reports of US spy-balloon programs date back years.

It’s not just the opposition asking questions. Rep. Jim Himes, a top Dem on House Intelligence Committee (D-Conn.), this weekend stated that he has. “real concerns about why the administration is not being more forthcoming with everything that it knows.” 

Some spy-vs.-spy stuff needs to be secret, but at this point the nation deserves some clear answers — and cause to believe our leaders have solid national-security reasons for Whatever it is they’re doing.