Indeed, Biden seemed less interested in rallying us for alien warfare and more intent on calming U.S.-China relations. Juliette Kayyem: The simple explanation for all these flying objects To be sure, he did not say the word aliens. He rejected the idea that there has been a “sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky” and instead offered that sightings have increased because our radar capabilities have increased. “The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research,” Biden said. This is when the aliens-are-real crowd’s ears momentarily perked up. “But nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy-balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country.” “We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were,” he said, tantalizingly. and Canadian militaries were still working to recover the debris from the three recently downed somethings. It felt less like a triumphant milestone in our shared knowledge of the universe and more like an inoffensive midday presentation at an auto show.īiden began by explaining that the U.S. In fact, the speech wasn’t in the White House at all but next door, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s sterile and cacophonous South Court Auditorium. Like much of the Biden presidency, today’s event had a decidedly un-Hollywood feel to it. (Think Bill Pullman’s predawn megaphone pump-up speech before the Independence Day climax, or Morgan Freeman somberly telling his Deep Impact constituents that, yes, the comet is coming, and millions of you are screwed.) Today, sadly, President Joe Biden did not unveil the grand truth about UFOs with clasped hands on the Resolute desk, nor did he march down the dramatic carpeted corridor leading to the East Room for an Osama bin Laden–is-dead-style surprise. Hollywood has primed us for what to expect from our commander in chief ahead of an interstellar crisis. Our military’s targeted takedown of multiple aerial objects over North America brought UFOs back to the forefront of our national conversation-enough to elicit a presidential address on the matter this afternoon. Nevertheless, it’s not just you the events of the past week have felt different. As my colleague Marina Koren wrote yesterday, UFO sightings are indeed getting more frequent, even if the data don’t necessarily scream ALIENS! Likewise, the huge New Yorker feature by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “ How the Pentagon Started Taking UFOs Seriously,” is pretty much required reading before you offer a qualified opinion on the issue. Those 2019 New York Times videos of zig-zagging, Tic Tac–like vessels with curious propulsion are always worth a rewatch. Last year's intelligence report could only explain one of the documented 144 encounters and did not contain the words "alien" or "extraterrestrial." The report stated then that the UAP incidents would require further study.The question is not whether aliens exist-I’m firmly in the “Hell yeah, they do!” camp-but rather when we’ll have enough hard evidence to end the decades-long debate over said existence.īelievers in UFOs have gotten some tantalizing clues over the past few years. "Reports of sightings are frequent and continuous."īut Bray believes many of the newly disclosed accounts are actually "historic reports that are narrative-based" from prior incidents that people are only now coming forward with, which leads him to believe there will be fewer new accounts in the future. "We've seen an increasing number of unauthorized and or unidentified aircraft or objects and military control training areas and training ranges and other designated airspace," Bray said. Bray told the House panel that the spike was due to a reduction in the stigma associated with stepping forward to report such incidents in the wake of the 2021 report. The number of UAP reports has risen to "approximately 400," a significant increase from the 144 between 20 that were tracked in last year's report, according to Scott Bray, the deputy director of Naval Intelligence.
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