said on Sunday after a series of shoot-downs of unknown objects that he would not dismiss aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to United States intelligence experts.Asked whether he had dismissed an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by US warplanes in as numerous days, General Glen VanHerck stated: Ill let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.

I havent eliminated anything.

At this point we continue to examine every risk or prospective danger, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to determine it, stated VanHerck, head of United States North American Aerospace Defense Command(NORAD )and Northern Command.VanHercks comments came throughout a Pentagon briefing on Sunday after an US F-16 fighter jet shot down an octagonal-shaped object over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border, acting upon orders from US President Joe Biden.It was the third unidentified flying challenge be knocked out of the sky by US warplanes considering that Friday, following the Feb.

4 downing of a believed Chinese weather balloon that put North American air defenses on high alert.Another United States defense official, speaking on condition of privacy, said separately after the news instruction that the military had seen no proof suggesting that any of the things in concern were of extraterrestrial origin.VanHerck told press reporters that the armed force was not able to right away identify the means by which any of the three latest things were kept aloft, the means of their propulsion or where they were originating from.

Were calling them things, not balloons, for a factor, said VanHerck, who is head of the joint US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command(NORAD )and the US Air Force Northern Command.The incidents come as the Pentagon has actually carried out a brand-new push in current years to investigate military sightings of UFOs -rebranded in official federal government parlance as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.However, the federal governments effort to examine anomalous, unidentified objects-- whether they remain in area, the skies and even underwater-- has caused numerous reports that are being examined, senior military leaders have said.But so far, the Pentagon has actually not found evidence to show Earthly check outs from smart alien life, those officials have actually stated.