White House: No indication of aliens, can't rule out surveillance from unidentified objects

I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. Again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. Wanted to make sure that the American people knew that, all of you knew that. And it was important for us to say that from here, because we've been hearing a lot about it. Are you going to say something about it? I'm not. What did you tell us? I'm just, you know, I loved E.T.

, the movie, but I'm just going to leave it there. OK? Thanks for clearing that up. Makes my job easier. We do not assess that these most recent objects posed any direct threat to people on the ground. And we are laser focused on confirming their nature and purpose, including through intensive efforts to collect debris in the remote locations where they have fallen. We assessed whether they posed any kinetic threat to people on the ground. We did, however, assess that their altitudes were considerably lower than the Chinese high altitude balloon and did pose a threat to civilian commercial air traffic.

And while we have no specific reason to suspect that they were conducting surveillance of any kind, we couldn't rule that out. That is why the President, at the recommendation of the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the North Com NORAD Commander, gave the order to shoot them down. These missions were completed successfully and safely. Efforts are actively underway right now at all sites to find what is left of those objects so that we can better understand and communicate with the American people what they are. If the objects don't pose a military threat and they don't pose a threat to anybody on the ground, why shoot them down? Even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out. And so they're, you know, you want to err on the side of safety here in terms of protecting our national security interests and the fact that these objects could have and likely did, at some point in their path, transit over potential military sites of ours or sensitive sites. So again, out of an abundance of caution for those two reasons, the President, with the recommendation of his military leaders, direct them to be taken down.

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