{"id":1844397,"date":"2023-02-12T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844397"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:50:14","slug":"schumer-says-u-s-officials-believe-ufos-shot-down-over-alaska-and-canada-were-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-says-u-s-officials-believe-ufos-shot-down-over-alaska-and-canada-were-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Says U.S. Officials Believe UFOs Shot Down Over Alaska And Canada Were Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschumer-says-u-s-officials-believe-ufos-shot-down-over-alaska-and-canada-were-balloons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Officials in the United States believe that the flying objects are not identified (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ufo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFO<\/a>) spotted over the United States and Canada over the past couple days are balloons, the Senate\u2019s top Democrat said Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/chuck-schumer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) told ABC News\u2019s George Stephanopoulos he discussed the situation with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey believe they were, yes,\u201d Schumer spoke to the anchor \u201cThis Week\u201d When asked to confirm that the objects seen over Canada and Alaska were balloons, he replied:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think the Chinese were humiliated. I think the Chinese were caught lying, and it\u2019s a real step back for them\u2026they look really bad,\u201d Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, says a href=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@GStephanopoulos<\/a> About the Chinese balloon surveillance programme. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eS3P8M0epS\">https:\/\/t.co\/eS3P8M0epS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GrR27nUY3d\">pic.twitter.com\/GrR27nUY3d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1624775988558065664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schumer stated that these objects were \u201cmuch smaller\u201d The balloon crashed off the coast South Carolina, at an altitude around 40,000 feet. This poses a risk to commercial aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer indicated that U.S. military personnel and intelligence officials are now focusing on the acquisition and accumulation of information as they continue to salvage operations. A \u201ccomprehensive analysis\u201d The senator stated that they will.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer claimed that these flying objects were only discovered by the United States recently. \u201cUntil a few months ago we didn\u2019t know about these balloons,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>A second UFO may have been seen in Montana on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>North American Aerospace Defense Command, (NORAD), detected what it called &#8220;a&#8221; \u201cradar anomaly,\u201d This led to a temporary flight restriction in the central part the state. However, a fighter plane was sent to investigate. \u201cdid not identify any object to correlate\u201d NORAD was notified of the radar hits, and the restriction was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The UFO shot off the coast of South Carolina last weekend is the only UFO the U.S. military publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>That vessel, the U.S. officials say, was a Chinese spy balloon that flew at a high altitude \u2014 away from commercial aircraft \u2014 across a wide swath of the United States. China claims that the airship was actually a weather balloon that was lost.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s state-run newspaper Sunday claimed that Chinese authorities witnessed a UFO near a port town. \u201cLocal maritime authorities in East China\u2019s Shandong Province announced on Sunday that they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Rizhao in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe via messages,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1624734766057803776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweet<\/a> From the Global Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials believe the unidentified flying objects (UFO) spotted over the United States and Canada over the past couple days are balloons, the Senate\u2019s top Democrat said Sunday morning. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told ABC News\u2019s George Stephanopoulos he discussed the situation with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday night. \u201cThey believe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1844400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8320,17521,3957,3638,4411,4049,7238,18433],"class_list":["post-1844397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alaska","tag-balloons","tag-canada","tag-officials","tag-schumer","tag-shot","tag-u-s","tag-ufos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}