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UFOs Linked to Aerial Infiltration
Chinese Spy Balloon: How
Increased UFO Sightings
Could Be Linked To Aerial
Infiltration
When the intelligence community began
releasing information on UFOs in U.S.
air space, the most prominent possible
culprit in the popular imagination was
extraterrestrials, but the Chinese spy
balloon saga indicates more attention
could be paid to Beijing’s possible role.
Although the Chinese spy balloon that
traveled across the United States from
Alaska to the Eastern Seaboard was
quickly spotted, it is possible other such
incidents went undetected, with concern
that advanced Chinese surveillance
technologies may also be able to
sometimes fly unobserved or unidentified
above or near the U.S.
CHINESE BALLOON STORY
BIGGER THAN IT SEEMS
The Office of the Director of National
Intelligence released a “preliminary
assessment” on UFOs in June 2021
stating that 144 UFO reports originated
from U.S. government sources, with 80
of the UFOs being observed with
“multiple sensors.” By definition,
because the aerial phenomena are
unidentified, it is not known if China is
behind some of them.
“Frankly, if it’s something outside this
planet, that might actually be better than
the fact that we’ve seen some sort of
technological leap from the Chinese or
Russians or some other adversary that
allows them to conduct this sort of
activity,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the
vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, said in July 2020. “That to
me is a national security risk and one we
should be looking into."
The ODNI said in 2021 it could only
identify one reported unidentified aerial
phenomena with high confidence, saying,
“We identified the object as a large,
deflating balloon. The others remain
unexplained.”
The spy office divided the UFOs into five
possible categories: foreign adversary
systems, airborne clutter, natural
atmospheric phenomena, U.S.
government or U.S. industry
developmental programs, and “a catchall
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‘other’ bin.” The ODNI added that UFOs over the continental United States for an
would “represent a national security extended period of time. That’s the
challenge if they are foreign adversary biggest difference here,” the defense
collection platforms or provide evidence official said.
a potential adversary has developed
either a breakthrough or disruptive The ODNI said in January that the UFOs
technology.” The spy office said some “pose a possible adversary collection
UFOs might be technologies deployed by threat” and that these UFO events
China or Russia, worrying that some “continue to occur in restricted or
UFOs “have been detected near military sensitive airspace, highlighting possible
facilities or by aircraft carrying the U.S. concerns for safety of flight or adversary
government’s most advanced sensor collection activity.” []
systems.”
DEBUNKED: The Moon Will
A follow-up report by the ODNI in
January revealed that in addition to the Turn Green.
144 UFOs listed in its 2021 report, “there
have been 247 new reports and another In spring 2016, there was a rumor that the
119 that were either since discovered or moon would turn green because several
reported after the preliminary planets had aligned and caused an eerie
assessment’s time period” — for a total glow, according to EarthSky (opens in new
of 510 UFO reports as of August. tab). This was supposed to happen on April
20 and again on May 29 for the first time
The Pentagon said that of the 366 new since 1596, the rumor alleged.
reports, 163 were “characterized as 26
characterized as balloon or balloon-like The moon never actually turned green,
entities,” while 26 were characterized as although it can appear red during a lunar
eclipse, when the moon passes through
unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, Earth's shadow. In the same way sunsets
while six were attributed simply to aerial often appear red, sunlight is scattered as it
“clutter.” passes through Earth's atmosphere, casting
a reddish shadow on the moon's surface.
A senior defense official was asked this
weekend about the ODNI’s assessment of Skywatching columnist Joe Rao debunked
163 UFOs possibly being balloons, but this green-moon myth. He pointed out that
the official largely dodged. a full moon actually took place on April 22,
2016, and speculated that the April 20 date
of the "green moon" might have to do with
“I'm not going to go into the exact nature "National Weed Day," popularly known as
of the technology. I don't think that the 4/20. Considering that the last green moon
payload on this is — I wouldn't supposedly happened 420 years ago as
characterize it as revolutionary. I think well, this doesn't appear to be a
the thing that is different is the altitude coincidence.
and of course the willingness to put it