The Biden administration was pressed for an explanation on the UFOs shot down by the Air Force over the weekend.
for waiting days to take down the balloon once it was over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina.
"These other three, they didn't have propulsion. They weren't being maneuvered. It was basically they were being driven by the wind. We don't think – we don't know for sure whether they had a surveillance aspect to them, but we can't rule it out. So there was a little bit, there was enough uncertainty there that, again, out of all abundance of caution, doing the prudent thing, the president directed that they get taken down," he said.
Kirby added that the administration was going to"learn from these three events," and"continue to study what happened" in order to decide what the standard would be going forward in handling such objects. "We're going to have an interagency effort that helps us get around the policy implications here. And we'll see where this goes. But bottom line for President Biden is going to do the right thing for the American people, for our safety and security," he said.
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