{"id":1844764,"date":"2023-02-13T08:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844764"},"modified":"2023-02-13T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:07:44","slug":"house-intel-committee-chair-warns-u-s-doesnt-have-an-adequate-radar-system-after-flying-objects-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-intel-committee-chair-warns-u-s-doesnt-have-an-adequate-radar-system-after-flying-objects-shot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"House Intel Committee Chair Warns U.S. Doesn\u2019t Have an \u201cAdequate Radar System\u201d After Flying Objects Shot Down"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fhouse-intel-committee-chair-warns-u-s-doesnt-have-an-adequate-radar-system-after-flying-objects-shot-down%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=1844764&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>The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warned the United States doesn\u2019t have an adequate radar system after multiple incidents involving flying objects in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really have adequate radar system, and we certainly don\u2019t have an integrated missile defense system. We\u2019re going to have to begin to look at the United States airspace as one that we need to defend,\u201d Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the House Intelligence panel\u2019s chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/sotu\/date\/2023-02-12\/segment\/01\">Telled<\/a> CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday. \u201cThis shows some of the problems and gaps that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a Chinese spy was suspected, lawmakers raised the alarm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-balloon\">balloon<\/a> On February 4, the aircraft was spotted above U.S. Territory. While some of them called on the military to shoot it down, the aircraft traveled over much of the continental United States before it was downed by an F-22 Raptor near South Carolina\u2019s coast days later.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, both Canadian and U.S. officials reported more incidents. Saturday saw another F-22 shoot down an unknown object close to the Yukon Territory. The same day, another F-22 also shot down an object in northern Alaska, near Prudhoe Bay.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening, the Canadian-U.S.-operated North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Federal Aviation Administration shut down airspace in a part of Montana. The incident was later attributed to a radar anomaly. Airspace was temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do appear somewhat trigger-happy, although this is certainly preferable to the permissive environment that they showed when the Chinese spy balloon was coming over to our most sensitive sites,\u201d Turner stated this on the Sunday program.<\/p>\n<p>But the top Republican said that he hasn\u2019t been briefed on the latest developments around unknown objects being shot down. He described the lack intelligence and insufficient details.\u00a0\u201cparticularly annoying,\u201d Claim \u201cthere needs to be more engagement within the administration and Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably they\u2019re a little hesitant after the Chinese balloon fiasco, where they let it go across the country to great criticism\u2014bipartisan, bicameral criticisms from Congress,\u201d He kept going. \u201cI think it\u2019s certainly a new, recent development that you have China being so aggressive in entering other country\u2019s airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Much Smaller\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told a separate news program Sunday that U.S. officials have indicated to him that they believe the recently shot down objects are balloons, although they\u2019re not as large as the one that was shot down off the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer replied affirmatively to an ABC News interviewer when asked whether the two objects were balloons. \u201cThey believe they were, yes, but much smaller than the first one,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5045691\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/02\/09\/Spy-balloon-2-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-5045691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Spy-balloon-2-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spy balloon\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5045691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Spy-balloon-2-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spy balloon\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> On February 5, 2023, the Explosive Ordnance Destruction Group 2 sailors recovered a high-altitude surveillance ballon off Myrtle Beach (S.C.) (U.S. Navy via AP)<\/figure>\n<p>Schumer stated that teams were removing debris from the objects and would attempt to identify where it came from. The objects that were downed Friday and Saturday were smaller, and they flew at lower altitudes (around 40,000 feet), in the same airspace as commercial flights. This is compared to the height of the first one, which was about 60,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is until a few months ago we didn\u2019t know about these balloons,\u201d Schumer spoke. \u201cIt is wild that we didn\u2019t know. \u2026 Now they are learning a lot more. And the military and the intelligence are focused like a laser on first gathering and accumulating the information, then coming up with a comprehensive analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand told a news conference in Ottawa that one of the objects, flying at around 40,000 feet, had been shot down at 3:41 p.m. EST, approximately 100 miles from the Canada\u2013U.S. The border is in central Yukon. Canadian Armed Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police were involved in a rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration in the United States announced Saturday night that it had closed airspace in Montana for support of Defense Department activities. NORAD later confirmed that the closure, which lasted just over an hour, was made after it had detected the issue. \u201ca radar anomaly\u201d They sent fighter planes to investigate. NORAD reported that the aircraft failed to identify any object which could have been correlated to radar hits.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. military officials, recovery efforts are underway in Deadhorse (Alaska), a remote area within the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p><em>This report was contributed by The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warned the United States doesn\u2019t have an adequate radar system after multiple incidents involving flying objects in recent days. \u201cWe don\u2019t really have adequate radar system, and we certainly don\u2019t have an integrated missile defense system. We\u2019re going to have to begin to look at the United States &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844767,"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":[547],"tags":[18472,5184,4384,7118,6328,3653,7526,18443,18471,4049,3713,7238,3633],"class_list":["post-1844764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-adequate","tag-chair","tag-committee","tag-doesnt","tag-flying","tag-house","tag-intel","tag-objects","tag-radar","tag-shot","tag-system","tag-u-s","tag-warns"],"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\/1844764","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}