The White House moves into the Twilight Zone as it addresses the recent spate of unidentified flying objects.
ET is not taking the blame for this.
The main character from Steven Spielberg’s iconic 1982 film received a mention during a White House press conference on February 13 as proceedings drifted to Hanger 18.
The topic was the recent spate of unidentified flying objects that have slid into the nation’s skies.
The US military shot down an unidentified object shot down Sunday over Lake Huron, the fourth flying object in less than two weeks to have been shot down over US airspace.
The story began with a Chinese spy balloon that exploded off the coast of South Carolina on February 4.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to eliminate a potential source of the invaders.
“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent shootdowns,” he said, as reporters chuckled. “I wanted to make sure that the American people knew, that all of you knew. And it was important for us to say that from here because we’ve heard a lot about it.”
“I love the movie ET, but I’m going to leave it there,” added Jean-Pierre.
The UFO factor may have arisen from comments by General Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command,
“I’m not going to classify them as balloons,” he said, according to nbc news. “We call them objects for a reason. I can’t categorize how they stay in the air.”
VanHerck refused to rule out aliens, saying. “I’ll let the intelligence community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.”
A senior administration official described the downed object over Lake Huron as an octagonal structure with dangling ropes but no perceptible load.
At least one reporter asked the obvious question in response to Jean-Pierre’s flying saucer denial.
“Would you tell us?” she asked.
