Biden: If Any Object Presents a Threat to the American People, I Will Take It Down

BIDEN: “Make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down. I’ll be sharing with Congress these classified policy parameters when they’re completed, and they’ll remain classified so we don’t give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses.
Our military through the North American Aerospace Defense Command, so-called NORAD, closely scrutinized our airspace, including enhancing our radar to pick up more slow-moving objects above our country and around the world. In doing so, they tracked three unidentified objects, one in Alaska, Canada, and over Lake Huron in the Midwest. They acted in accordance with established parameters to determine how to deal with unidentified aerial objects in U.S. airspace.
This episode underscores the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our diplomats and our military professionals. Our diplomats will be engaging further, and I will remain in communication with President Xi. I’m grateful for the work over the last several weeks of our intelligence, diplomatic and military professionals, who have proven once again to be the most capable in the world. I want to thank you all. Now, look, the other thing I want to point out is that we will keep our allies and the Congress contemporaneously informed on all we know and all we learned, and I expect to be speaking with President Xi and I hope we will get to the bottom of this. But I make no apologies for taking down that balloon. Thank you very much.”