White House: Three downed UFOs likely commercial, 'benign,' not part of China spy balloon program

"The remnants are in very difficult terrain," Sen. Kennedy said. "They're looking, but they haven't been able to find them."

By Madeleine Hubbard

Updated: February 14, 2023 - 12:46pm

The White House on Tuesday said the three objects downed by the U.S. military in the past five days were likely used for "benign" or commercial purposes and were not part of the Chinese spy program but the remnants have not yet been recovered.

"These could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, according to NPR.

"While we can’t definitively say, again without analyzing the debris, what these objects were, thus far — and I caveat that by saying thus far — we haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the [China’s] spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts," Kirby also said.

Navy divers have recovered the payload of the China surveillance balloon that was shot down Feb. 7 and recovered off the South Carolina coast. But the remnants of the three UFO shot down Friday, Saturday, then Sunday have yet to be recovered.

"They are in very difficult terrain," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said during a separate press conference Tuesday "The [first] one, off the coast of Alaska, that's in some really, really difficult terrain in the Arctic Circle, with very, very low temperatures in the minus 40s. The second one is in the Canadian Rockies and the Yukon. Very difficult to get that one, and the third one is in Lake Huron, probably a couple 100 feet [deep], so we'll get them eventually, but it's going to take some time to recover those."

Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana made a similar comment after the Senate received an intelligence briefing on the matter.

"The remnants are in very difficult terrain," he said. "They're looking, but they haven't been able to find them."

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Former Trump advisor suggests there may be Russian culpability in the unidentified flying objects

The U.S. on Monday told American citizens who are currently in Russia to get out immediately.

By Charlotte Hazard

Updated: February 13, 2023 - 6:33pm

Former deputy national security adviser to President Trump Victoria Coates predicts that there could be possible Russian culpability with all the unidentified flying objects over the past several days.

"Where did these things come from?" Coates asked on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "My concern is that they might be a combination. Are we seeing a coordinated Chinese Russia effort here? That's really what makes me worry."

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Ex-Trump security adviser raises concerns of ‘China-Russia effort’ after weekend takedown of UFOs over North AmericaEx-Trump security adviser raises concerns of ‘China-Russia effort’ after weekend takedown of UFOs over North America

Yesterday the U.S. military shot down another suspicious object over Lake Huron. Previously, the United States downed three objects within a week that were believed to be surveillance balloons.

The U.S. on Monday told American citizens who are currently in Russia to get out immediately.

"The big question is why is Russia such an intolerable threat today, and it wasn't last week?" Coates continued. "Because the previous travel warning that the State Department put out was last September when Russia did the additional call-up."

Coates noted that the United States' messaging about Russia is a little odd.

"So apparently, nothing has changed in the intervening months until today," she explained. "And so that makes me wonder if they have evidence that there is some Russian culpability in the unidentified flying object attacks."

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Former US Ambassador Grenell says media has 'partisan axe to grind,' points to Biden laptop story

Grenell also said the 51 reporters who signing a letter saying the laptop story was Russia disinformation never saw a single source of intelligence beforehand.

By Charlotte Hazard

Updated: February 13, 2023 - 6:17pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell says mainstream media reporters have a clear bias and an axe to grind, pointing to their reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story.

"51 of them [journalists] signed a letter saying that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, then the real story came out that not a single one of those 51 people ever saw a piece of raw intelligence that suggested that, nor did they get a briefing," Grenell said Monday on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "They never saw a single source of intelligence before signing that letter."

Grenell, who also was an acting director of National Intelligence for President Trump, also said about the reporters: "They all jumped to sign that letter because they had a hunch, because they had a partisan axe to grind."

The laptop was abandon and recovered in a Delaware repair shop and contains some information about Hunter Biden's questionable overseas business dealings, in part when his father, President Joe Biden, was vice president.

A story about the discovery of the laptop was published three weeks before the 2020 presidential election that Biden won.

Grenell also said none of the reporters or even President Biden, has been held accountable for calling the laptop story "Russian disinformation."

"All of the media and all of the Democrats said, 'Don't look at that Hunter Biden laptop, because it's Russia, Russia, Russia,'" Grenell argued. "And even Joe Biden during the debate brought it up and said 'This is Russian disinformation.' He's never been held to account for that lie – for that spin of that election interference."

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