13/2/2023–|Last updated: 2/13/202311:59 AM (Makkah)
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today, Monday, that Washington has sent balloons over Chinese airspace more than 10 times since January 2022, while the commander of the US Northern Command, General Glendy Vanherk, said that he did not rule out that the unknown objects that were shot down by the United States in the past days were from outside. Planet Earth.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wen said at a press conference that the United States sent those balloons without obtaining the permission of the Chinese authorities, and the same spokesman urged the states to “change course and blame themselves instead of accusing and defaming China.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not disclose the nature of the work of the American balloons.
Chinese airship
The Chinese accusation came a day after Melissa, the US Assistant Secretary of Defense, said that her country had contacted China about the Chinese balloon, after the Pentagon’s requests for dialogue had been rejected for several days.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had asked to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Wei Feng, shortly after the shooting down of an American fighter, the Chinese airship off the east coast of the United States, but Austin did not receive any response, although the incident prompted Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to cancel a trip to Beijing that had been scheduled for some time. long.
China said last Thursday that it refused to contact the US Secretary of Defense because of Washington’s “irresponsible and gravely wrong” decision to shoot down the Chinese balloon.
Beijing denies that the balloon is for espionage purposes, saying it is for civilian weather research.
UFOs
General Glendy Vanherk, commander of the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said that he did not rule out that the unknown objects dropped by the United States in the past days were from extraterrestrials.
On Sunday, US General Vanherk responded to a question about the connection of the three flying objects that were shot down by US fighters to aliens, saying, “I do not rule out anything … I will leave it to the intelligence community to reveal the truth about that.”
“At this point, we continue to assess every threat or potential unknown threat approaching North America by trying to identify it,” said the commander of the US Army’s Northern Command.
The US general’s remarks came at a press conference at the Pentagon after a US F-16 fighter jet shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border, on the orders of the President. American Joe Biden.
third body
It was the third unidentified flying object shot down by American fighters since last Friday, following the February 4 shooting down of a suspected Chinese balloon, which put North American air defenses on high alert.
In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that Canadian investigators are tracking down the wreckage of the mysterious flying object that was shot down by US fighter jets over the Yukon region in the far northwest of the country, which borders the US state of Alaska.
“The search teams are working on the ground, looking forward to finding and analyzing the object,” Trudeau told reporters. He did not say what the object was, but said it “presented a reasonable threat to the security of civilian flights”.
“The security of our citizens is our top priority, and that is why I made the decision to shoot down that mysterious object,” he added.