Schumer Vows Flying Objects Will ‘Be Dealt With’ As ‘The Last Ones Have Been’
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) insists the U.S. military will continue to deal with flying objects, as it has with four of them in recent weeks. During an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Monday, Schumer…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) insists the U.S. military will continue to deal with flying objects, as it has with four of them in recent weeks.
During an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Monday, Schumer said intelligence and military agencies are gaining “new evidence every hour” about the unidentified objects that were shot down.
“And they are focused like a laser on figuring out what happened and coming up with sort of a comprehensive analysis of how we deal with this,” he continued.
He added, “But I can assure the American people of this, if any of these objects present any danger to the American people or American interests, they will be dealt with appropriately as the last ones have been.”
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After the spectacle of a Chinese spy balloon floating over a large swath of the continental U.S., the military appears to have decided to act quickly to shoot down potentially dangerous objects in the sky.
An unidentified object flying around 40,000 feet was shot down over Alaska on Friday. Another unidentified flying object — described as cylindrical — flying around 40,000 feet was shot down over Canada on Saturday. And a third unidentified object was shot down over Lake Huron on Sunday.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, a part of Montana’s airspace was temporarily shut down and designated a “national defense airspace.” The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) later said in a statement