Pentagon memo: Object shot down Saturday crossed near “U.S. sensitive sites”

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

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According to a Pentagon memo sent to lawmakers, the unidentified object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday appeared to be a “small, metallic balloon” that crossed near “U.S. sensitive sites.” Members of Congress want more information after a total of three unidentified objects were shot down in just three days. Retired Canadian Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Clancy is the former Director of Operations at NORAD. He tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks it’s strange that there is so little information known about these objects.

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0:00.0	Good evening. We begin for change tonight with everything we do not know about the three
0:04.8	objects shot out of the skies over the US and Canada this weekend. And there's a lot.
0:09.2	And it's just not just us or just you or everybody doing Google searches or phoning their
0:14.0	members of Congress who don't know. It's also the members of Congress themselves at least
0:18.5	to a degree. What in the world is going on?
0:25.2	The Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the full Senate are expected to get a classified
0:29.0	briefing on the subject tomorrow. Until then he clearly has questions.
0:34.9	What are we shooting down? Where do they come from? Whether they are hostile or not?
0:41.5	Is there coherent guidance about when to shoot them down? How did we get into a position
0:48.2	where the greatest nation in the world doesn't know what is traversing our own airspace?
0:53.4	To be fair, we are less in the dark tonight than just yesterday when Norad's top general
0:57.4	found himself not ruling out space aliens.
1:02.2	Have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials? And if so, why? Because that is what everyone
1:08.5	is asking us right now.
1:10.2	And take true the question. I'll let the Intel community and the counter-intelligence
1:14.7	community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything at this point.
1:20.5	So he didn't yesterday. Today the White House did.
1:25.6	I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no indication of aliens
1:32.4	or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.
1:36.4	Okay, so no indication of that according to the White House.
1:40.0	Late today, CNN obtained a Pentagon memo sent to lawmakers today describing the object
1:44.6	shot down Saturday in Canadian airspace as what appeared to be, quote, small metallic balloon
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