UFOs over the US: Espionage or aliens?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson speaks to US correspondent James Matthews about the political motivation behind President Biden’s new trigger-happy approach to protecting US airspace and Nick Pope, who ran the UK governments' UFO programme, explains why these UFOs are far more likely to be from China than Mars.
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Uber drivers. Have you seen your pay go down while your fees to Uber go up? |
| 0:05.0 | All because of an algorithm that reduces your take-home pay, making you work more for less. |
| 0:10.0 | We believe Uber's dynamic pay and upfront pricing is unfair. |
| 0:14.0 | That's why Worker Info Exchange has launched the dynamic pay claim to seek compensation for drivers who have lost income. If you've driven for Uber |
| 0:22.7 | at any time since 2020, it's time to stand together. Find out more at dynamic pay.org. |
| 0:30.1 | Add water to your will. And know that from that single drop, life will grow. Communities will flourish. A better world will be left. |
| 0:43.3 | By leaving a gift in your will to Water Aid, you'll help bring essential clean water to people who need it, |
| 0:49.3 | to change their own lives for generations to come. Add WaterAid to your will. |
| 0:55.7 | Search WaterAid legacy to find out how. |
| 0:59.8 | Is it a bird? |
| 1:01.8 | Is it a plane? |
| 1:03.2 | Or could it be a Chinese spy balloon? |
| 1:06.0 | The simple truth is, we don't have a clue. |
| 1:10.7 | The United States has now shot down four objects |
| 1:13.9 | flying in their airspace. Here's Admiral John Kirby, spokesman for the US National Security Council, |
| 1:20.1 | explaining why. Even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were |
| 1:26.3 | surveilling, |
| 1:28.9 | we couldn't rule that out. |
| 1:31.6 | And so you want to err on the side of safety here in terms of protecting our national security interests. |
| 1:34.3 | The first object we know to be of Chinese origin |
| 1:37.4 | because they've admitted it, |
| 1:39.3 | although their claims that it was a weather balloon |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sky News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sky News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.