UFO

2023 - 2 - 12

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Playbook: UFO fever grips Washington (Politico)

With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross. President Joe Biden listens as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting in the.

[enjoying her Eagles’ Super Bowl run](https://apnews.com/article/biden-kansas-city-chiefs-philadelphia-eagles-mlb-politics-256e15924e43fde60e476d011afa078d). [“‘A serious committee’: Lawmakers have high bipartisan hopes for China panel as tensions rise,”](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-serious-committee-lawmakers-high-bipartisan-hopes-china-panel-tension-rcna70109) by NBC’s Scott Wong: “The China committee’s two leaders — Chair MIKE GALLAGHER, R-Wis., and ranking member RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI, D-Ill. Kushner’s firm structured those funds in such a way that it did not have to disclose the source, according to previously unreported details of Securities and Exchange Commission forms reviewed by The Washington Post.” It Could Be His Final Act in Washington,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/politics/bernie-sanders-help-committee.html) by NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg: Independent Vermont Sen. [“Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/11/trump-campaign-report-electoral-fraud/) by WaPo’s Josh Dawsey: “The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. MIKE ROUNDS (R-S.D.) on Medicare and Social Security proposals, on “State of the Union”: “I think Sen. JIM HIMES (D-Conn.) on the origins of the objects that have been shot down this week, on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “In an absence of information, people will fill that gap with anxiety and other stuff. SPENCER COX on the culture wars, on “Meet the Press”: “There’s some data that came out this past week to show that especially conservatives, we don't know how to disagree anymore. CHRIS SUNUNU on if he will be a “culture warrior” like other Republican governors, on CBS’ “Face the Nation”: “No, we have to talk about that, but it isn’t the government’s role to solve it. Biden and Trudeau “discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin,” according to the White House. That change does not yet fully answer what is going on, the official cautioned, and whether stepping back to look at more data is yielding more hits — or if these latest incursions are part of a more deliberate action by an unknown country or adversary.” The “high-altitude airborne object” soon merited a phone call between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU, and the two leaders agreed to take it out.

Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s (The New York Times)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said that the flying object “represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft.”Credit...Blair Gable/Reuters.

And here’s Friday’s edition of “ [The Daily](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/sports-betting-lobbying-laws-states.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article),” on how sports betting became mainstream in the U.S. [You can find all our puzzles here](https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords). [Jalen Hurts versus Patrick Mahomes](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/sports/football/super-bowl-quarterback-mahomes-hurts.html)will be a match of contrasting styles. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s billionaire leader, [has become a prominent public figure](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/world/europe/russia-wagner-group-prigozhin-putin.html), raising questions about his political ambitions. athlete in Super Bowl LVII (5 letters). He later said his comments had been taken out of context, but they’ve pushed the country’s hottest button. When Sweden expanded its parental leave in the 1970s, for instance, its fertility rate rose, and it remains one of the highest among advanced economies. Most initiatives that encourage families to have more children are expensive, and the results are often limited. Russian spies have repeatedly tried to infiltrate the Legion, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service said. Context: Turkey upgraded its building codes after an earthquake in 1999 killed more than 17,000 people, but experts said the codes were often ignored. China maintains that the object was a civilian weather balloon. An American F-22 jet downed that object over the Yukon Territory on Saturday.

Why the new UFO discoveries in the US and Canada are more ... (Travel Weekly)

But, what makes these new unidentified objects more concerning for the general public is the altitude they appear to be travelling at. The Chinese spy balloon ...

In an air traffic recording, the pilot says “I hate to say it, but it looked like a cruise missile.” Flying at around 30,000 – 40,000 feet, the same height as a commercial airliner. That followed the downing of two objects at the weekend.

Trudeau says teams hunting for debris of UFO shot down over Yukon (CNA)

OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday (Feb 12) that investigators are hunting for wreckage of the mysterious flying object shot down ...

Political behavioral art over North America is clumsy: Global Times ... (Global Times)

The US Air Force shot down an "unidentified flying object (UFO)" over Canada on Saturday local time. But officials from both Canada and the US so far have ...

In particular, some of its practices are exaggerated and bizarre to the outside world, and even a little morbid, but they make some people in the US as excited as if they are "high on drugs." Especially with US public opinion fanning the flames, Washington may become even more obsessed with the misuse of force, and even simplify the authorization of the use of force. However, it is clear that Washington is more concerned about the "shooting down" itself ̶ both the White House and Pentagon hoped to shoot down this object as soon as possible to reduce any feeling of hesitation or weakness the outside world would have toward the US in the face of possible threats. As for whether this object belongs to the US or whether it is a threat, these questions have to wait until after it is shot down. This is the third time in a week that the US military has shot down an object in North American airspace. This approach has further aroused suspicion and hype in the US media and public opinion.

Canada hunting for debris of UFO shot down over Yukon (Financial Post)

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – · “Recovery teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyze the object,” Trudeau told reporters.

“They believe they were (balloons), yes, but much smaller than the first one,” Schumer said, referring to the balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina last Saturday – a big, white, eye-catching inflatable whose trip across the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer provided a bit more detail to U.S. U.S. “Recovery teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyze the object,” Trudeau told reporters. Senate’s top lawmaker said that it – and another flying object shot down off the coast of Alaska – both appeared to be balloons. Article content

Opinion: The strange objects in US airspace may be an even bigger ... (CNN)

A recent report on UFOs by America's intelligence community is worth examining following the takedown by the US military of a Chinese spy balloon, ...

The public has a right to understand why objects are flying around in American airspace that the Pentagon and the US intelligence community can’t identify. Are they the work of a foreign power probing US air defenses? [significantly increased](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf) between March 2021 and August 2022, during which time 247 new sightings were reported, mostly by US Navy and Air Force pilots and personnel. An unspecified number of sightings were “attributable to sensor irregularities or variances, such as operator or equipment error.” Are they relatively innocuous, such as errant balloons? [new entity](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/politics/ufo-pentagon-update/index.html), the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, to investigate credible sightings of UFOs by the US military and intelligence community.

UFO danger is mostly in rising political tensions, says B.C. expert (Times Colonist)

It's too early to speculate on the security threat posed by the latest objects to be shot down by the US military over North America, says a specialist.

Sens said that the incidents will reinforce the significance and value of Norad, which is “the cornerstone of Canada-U.S. reaction to the first balloon was cautious, the recent interception and downing of these other objects indicates the limits of patience both in the U.S. On Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he ordered the object over central Yukon shot down because it posed a threat to civilian aircraft and potentially to Canadians. military shot down an object described as being the size of a small car over Alaska. At the time, the plane was flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet (10,000 metres) about 120 kilometres from Cranbrook in southeastern B.C. Separately, Air Canada said in a government aviation incident report that on Jan.

US Shoots Down Fourth UFO Over North America (Greek Reporter)

The US shot down another UFO which was first detected above military sites in Montana in the fourth operation of its kind this month.

Follow GR on [Google News ](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqLQgKIidDQklTRndnTWFoTUtFV2R5WldWcmNtVndiM0owWlhJdVkyOXRLQUFQAQ)and [subscribe here ](https://greekreporter.com/about/newsletter/)to our daily email! Glen VanHerck, the commander of the Officials have not publicly identified the origin or purpose of these objects. “I’m not going to categorize them as balloons. “I’m not able to categorize how they stay aloft. The object could have interfered with commercial air traffic as it was traveling at 20,000ft (6,100m), a Pentagon statement said.

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