[ad_1] The administration has been slow to respond in part because officials are still reviewing the historical data on the unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPS, and are running into problems trying to retroactively determine whether past sightings were surveillance tools or other objects such as academic weather balloons,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Initially, the objects were showing up on our newly upgraded radars and we assumed they were “ghosts in the machine,” or software glitches. But then we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple surveillance systems, including infrared sensors that detected heat signatures. Then came the hair-raising near missesContinue Reading
[ad_1] U.S. officials still haven’t said what the three objects were, but President Joe Biden said Thursday they were “most likely balloons” connected to either private companies or involving scientific research. “When I heard that [it was a] silver object with a payload attached to it, that could be oneContinue Reading
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. GUTEN MORGEN, Grüß Gott and Servus from Bavaria! Welcome to our special Munich Security conference edition of Playbook with that latest news, analysis and gossip from what some affectionately refer to as the “Davos with guns” festival. We’reContinue Reading
[ad_1] Diplomatic friction has worsened between the United States and China after Beijing claimed, without evidence, that US high-altitude balloons flew over its Xinjiang and Tibet regions, and threatened unspecified measures against US entities for undermining Chinese sovereignty. Washington and Beijing are locked in a tussle over flying objects afterContinue Reading
[ad_1] Now Bolton, who is weighing a 2024 presidential run, promised to “ask for all the details, top to bottom, on what the record indicates about Chinese or other aerial incursions during the Trump administration.” “I want to know whether overflights during the Trump administration were detected or not detected.Continue Reading
[ad_1] Today, the history of the Fu-Go balloons holds three important lessons for the leaders of China and the United States as they navigate the current crisis. First, there is something about unseen, high-altitude objects that invites a degree of alarm out of proportion to their direct harm for nationalContinue Reading
[ad_1] While such objects “at times” have gone through U.S. airspace, the current scale is unprecedented, Turner said. “It’s certainly a new, recent development that you have China being so aggressive in entering other countries’ air space and doing so for clear intentions to spy, with very sophisticated equipment,” heContinue Reading
[ad_1] Rep. Mike Turner, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, called for an aggressive stance on taking down airborne objects on Sunday, after the U.S. shot down multiple objects in North American airspace in recent weeks. “I would prefer them to be trigger-happy than to be permissive,” Turner (R-Ohio) saidContinue Reading
[ad_1] “This never happened. It would have never happened,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday. “I’m not aware of a single civilian national security leader from the Trump administration who heard of this,” said a Trump administration national security official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity toContinue Reading