{"id":1844534,"date":"2023-02-12T23:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844534"},"modified":"2023-02-12T23:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:07:21","slug":"top-u-s-air-force-general-makes-shocking-remarks-about-unidentified-objects-shot-down-by-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-u-s-air-force-general-makes-shocking-remarks-about-unidentified-objects-shot-down-by-u-s-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Air Force General Makes Shocking Remarks About Unidentified Objects Shot Down By U.S. Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Ftop-u-s-air-force-general-makes-shocking-remarks-about-unidentified-objects-shot-down-by-u-s-military%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=1844534&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-air-force\">U.S. Air Force<\/a> General Glen VanHerck is the North American commander responsible for overseeing airspace. He did not rule aliens out when asked about unidentified objects which were recently shot down over North American aviation.<\/p>\n<p>These comments follow the U.S. Military shooting down an unidentified object in Lake Huron, Canada, Saturday, and Friday, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>VanHerck answered the question, &#8220;Has the U.S. military ruled out extraterrestrial origin of the unidentified objects?&#8221; \u201cI\u2019ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven\u2019t ruled out anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it,\u201d VanHerck continued.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter plane was shot down \u2018octagonal\u2019 Sidewinder missile to fly object above Lake Huron<\/p>\n<p>Later, a U.S. defense officer spoke anonymously. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/ruling-out-aliens-senior-us-general-says-not-ruling-out-anything-yet-2023-02-13\/\">Reuters<\/a>, \u201cNo indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent take downs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VanHerck stated that U.S. officials were confident that the objects weren&#8217;t balloons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to categorize them as balloons. We\u2019re calling them objects for a reason,\u201d VanHerck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/object-shot-down-lake-huron-21223\/index.html\"><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure or it could be some type of a propulsion system. But clearly, they\u2019re \u2014 they\u2019re able to stay aloft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VenHerck said that U.S. officials considered trying to use the fighter jet\u2019s machine guns to shoot down the objects so that the objects would be better preserved after they were shot down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe assessed taking a gunshot yesterday in that event, as well as today, and the pilots in each situation felt that that was really unachievable because of the size, especially yesterday in the altitude and also because of the challenge to acquire it visually because it\u2019s so small,\u201d VanHerck claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have taken extreme caution to ensure that we limit potential collateral damage, so today, we worked closely with the FAA to clear out the airspace,\u201d He concluded. \u201cI gave direction specifically to the pilots to use their visual acuity to check for mariners on the ground, airplanes in the air to clear with their radars as well. And when they were comfortable, that we can minimize collateral damage, they selected the best weapon today that was the AIM 9x (missile). And they took the shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, the commander who oversees North American airspace, did not rule out aliens when asked about the unidentified objects shot down over North American airspace in recent days. The comments come after the U.S. military shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron on Sunday, one over Canada on Saturday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1844537,"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":[6229,4649,4505,18443,5112,5587,4049,7238,18314],"class_list":["post-1844534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-air","tag-force","tag-military","tag-objects","tag-remarks","tag-shocking","tag-shot","tag-u-s","tag-unidentified"],"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\/1844534","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}