The parcel revelations of the American authorities leave the public in republican uncertainty and opposition in a growing state of irritation.
by Piotr Smolar (Washington, correspondent)
Sometimes communication adds to confusion. Monday, February 13, quasi-integrality of the White House press point was devoted to a single subject: the American sky. Since a Chinese spy ball has been spotted and then shot down off the South Carolina, on February 4, the plot revelations continue, fueling suspicion and fantasies. They no longer concern operations of the same kind organized in the past by Beijing, but unidentified flying objects. Three of them were spotted and destroyed between Friday and Sunday by the American air forces. “There is no indication of extraterrestrials or extraterrestrial activities,” said good to specify Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House spokesperson, with a smile.
During the press point at the White House on Monday, John Kirby, in charge of diplomatic and security issues, tried to give some factual elements on this sudden agitation in the sky. The trajectory of these flying objects would not depend on any piloting tools, but on the meaning of the winds. They did not transmit communication signals. Their size would be much smaller than that of the Chinese ball. Finally, they flew at much lower altitude. The Chinese ball was very high, at 18,000 meters, while flying objects circulated between 6,000 and 9,000 meters. “These objects do not present a danger for anyone on the ground, said the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, at his descent of the plane in Brussels on Monday. Nevertheless, they present a risk for civil aviation, And potentially a risk of collecting information. “It is therefore in the name of a” precautionary repetition “that Washington decided to destroy these objects in flight.
John Kirby stressed that the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects had existed for years, without collecting the sustained attention of the authorities. In June 2021, the president, Joe Biden, devoted one of his daily security briefs for the first time. A Pentagon office has been set up to look at the issue, in connection with the research world. But it is the modification of the parameters in the radar capacities of the United States which could explain “at least in part” the sudden resurgence, in recent days, of these identified objects. Joe Biden asked his national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, to set up a cross -sectional team, Interagences, to work on the implications.
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