![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment.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. intelligence sources to have been more balloons, "much smaller" than the initial Chinese craft, though could not confirm this definitively. He also echoed Himes' statements about the two recent shootdowns being done out of concern for commercial aircraft, and said that they are believed by U.S. The New York Democrat stressed that the Biden administration was not aware of foreign surveillance balloons, dating back to the Trump White House, until recently. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, did claim to have been briefed on the matter during his own Sunday interview with ABC News' This Week. Himes said in his Meet the Press interview that he had not yet been briefed on the two shootdowns. Himes on Sunday downplayed speculation about aliens in relation to two recent shootdowns, stating that it was the result of anxious speculation in the absence of information. House Democratic Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut is seen. If you're at or below 40,000 feet, now you're in the travel zone for civilian aviation." Remember, the initial Chinese balloon was at fifty, sixty thousand feet, that's not a threat. "The two shootdowns have occurred around objects that were a threat to civil aviation. "There's a logic to what the administration has done," the Democratic lawmaker said. Speaking with host Chuck Todd, Himes downplayed social media worries that the two shootdowns were related to possible alien activity, or other potential issues, stressing the objects were spotted at altitudes that could endanger civilian aviation. While the nature of these objects has not been officially confirmed, they have nonetheless sparked semi-serious concerns online about possible contact by aliens. On Sunday, he appeared on NBC News's Meet the Press where he was asked to weigh in on the recent reports that two unidentified aerial objects were shot down over American and Canadian airspace. ![]() Himes represents Connecticut's 4th Congressional District and is the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Representative Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat, attempted to downplay concerns and talks of an "alien invasion" on Sunday in the wake of recent aerial objects being shot down by the United States. ![]()
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