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Sleep well America, Joe Biden and Mike Milley are on the job.

The U.S military has announced that it has concluded its search
for flying objects shot down over Deadhorse, Alaska, and Lake
Huron.

The first object was shot down on Feb. 10th over Alaska while
the second was shot down over Lake Huron on Feb. 12 and no
debris was found in either of these cases, according to a joint
statement released by NORCOM and NORAD.

“The U.S. military, federal agencies, and Canadian partners
concluded systematic searches of each area using a variety of
capabilities, including airborne imagery and sensors, surface
sensors and inspections, and surface scans, and did not locate
debris,” read the statement from NORAD published on social
media. “The Secretary of Defense concurred with the
recommendations.”

President Joe Biden addressed the U.S. response to the aerial
objects in a speech from the White House Thursday after facing
calls from lawmakers on Capitol Hill for greater transparency.

Biden said he would "make no apologies for taking down" the
Chinese surveillance balloon, calling it a "violation of our
sovereignty."

The other three objects were taken down "out of an abundance of
caution," Biden said, and don't appear to be spy vehicles from
China or any other foreign country.

"The intelligence community's current assessment is that these
three objects were most likely balloons tied to private
companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather
or conducting other scientific research," he said.

Air and maritime safety perimeters have been lifted both in
Deadhorse, Alaska, and in Lake Huron following the conclusion of
the search for debris, according to NORAD, while federal
authorities said their investigation into the balloon shot down
off the coast of South Carolina is currently ongoing.

“Recovery operations concluded Feb. 16 off the coast of South
Carolina, after U.S. Navy assets assigned to U.S. Northern
Command successfully located and retrieved debris from the high-
altitude PRC surveillance balloon shot down Feb. 4, 2023,” NORAD
said in its latest statement. “Final pieces of debris are being
transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory in
Virginia for counterintelligence exploitation, as has occurred
with the previous surface and subsurface debris recovered. U.S.
Navy and U.S. Coast Guard vessels have departed the area.”

Several agencies are currently conducting a review to study
broader policy implications for the U.S. detection and
analyzation of unidentified aerial objects, and Biden said the
review's findings will guide how the administration operates
going forward.

"But make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the
safety and security of the American people, I will take it
down," Biden said.

<https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-concludes-search-2-objects-shot- alaska-lake/story?id=97304508>

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