Shooting down flying objects: US Air Force says can't rule out aliens

Colorado: The United States Air Force general of North American airspace claimed that the role of aliens could not be ruled out from the recent series of shooting down of unidentified objects, Reuters reported.

General Glen VanHerck, head of US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command, said that he would let the intel community and counterintelligence community figure out what the flying objects were, but he has not ruled out any aliens or any other explanations.

He stated that at the moment, they keep assessing every unknown potential threat that approaches North America and attempts to identify them.

The White House reported on Friday that a US fighter jet shot down an object the size of a small car that was flying at a great height above Alaska in the direction of President Joe Biden.

Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary, said that the object posed a "reasonable threat to civilian air traffic."

The object, whose origin is yet to be ascertained, has fallen off the coast of Alaska in frozen water, and an effort is on to collect as much debris as possible, he told reporters at a news conference.

This came almost a week after the US shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina in the Atlantic Ocean. It had hovered over continental America for several days after entering the US airspace on January 30 in Montana.

China has acknowledged that the balloon was theirs but denied that it was for surveillance purposes rather than weather monitoring and that it had drifted off course.

Last week, there were reports of flying objects from Columbia and Latin America.