5:45-6:26 Why are we seeing more? Filters & gains of radar capabilities have been modified to look more discreetly at high-altitude, small, radar cross section & low-speed objects.
6:26-7:10 Do you have video and/or imagery and will you release it? Kirby: Ask DoD.
8:15-9:59 Differences between Chinese spy balloon vs. other three objects.
5) Kirby Pt. 4: Media Q & A
3:21-5:40 Kirby FINALLY asked about UAP (Our national media SUCKS!).
Reporter: "You started the briefing by talking about the President's involvement in this. The report from @ODNIgov, recently, that goes over this. In that ODNI report, about… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
6) Kirby Pt. 5: Media Q & A - Final segment.
4:37-5:14 Reporter: "My understanding is that the top officials in the Pentagon, when asked explicitly if they were ruling out any kind of extraterrestrial presence, said they weren't ruling anything out. And yet, at the beginning of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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"Or perhaps, albeit highly unlikely, a probe placed by an #alien species. Although most UAP likely have conventional explanations, some demonstrate capabilities that seem inexplicable without reference to a more advanced nation or… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2 "Alaska is highly unusual and may prove to be a Russian or Chinese electronic warfare or spy platform. Or perhaps, albeit highly unlikely, a probe placed by an alien species. Although most UAP likely have conventional explanations, some demonstrate christophermellon.net/post/statement…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3 "Accelerating our efforts to uncover the true nature of UAP is long overdue and once again it has the prospect to lead to breakthroughs that benefit mankind."
1 Here's a video edit (it's not perfect) of the relevant, #UAP/#UFO segments from today's WH press briefing, with Q&A. I also did a transcript. #ufotwitter#uaptwitter
Jean-Pierre (I didn't include this in the edit but it's in the first tweet below): "I just wanted to make sure… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2 Kirby: "from an interagency effort and to see what...if other, improvements [we] might need to make. Look, just by adapting the way the radar parameters are set (Can you say, @ChrisKMellon? ~Joe), we have improved our ability to detect.
3 Kirby: "And again, I said that could be one reason why we're seeing more."
Reporter: "My understanding is that the top officials in the Pentagon, when asked explicitly if they were ruling out any kind of extraterrestrial presence, said they weren't ruling anything out.
1 #ufotwitter "The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said on Sunday after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects that he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to U.S. intelligence experts.
2 "Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by U.S. warplanes in as many days, General Glen VanHerck said: 'I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything.'
3 "'At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it,' said VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command.
"There were multiple theories abounding in Washington as to the provenance of the objects, but several Biden administration officials cautioned that much remained unknown
2 "about the last two objects shot down. The United States has long monitored U.F.O.s that enter American airspace, and officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers, weather balloons or other airborne clutter may explain most recent incidents of
3 "unidentified aerial phenomena — government-speak for U.F.O.s — as well as many episodes in past years.
"However, nearly all of the incidents remain officially unexplained, according to a report made public in 2021.