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President Joe Biden is creating a team to develop rules of engagement to govern how the nation responds to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in U.S. airspace.
The announcement comes 12 days after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, and nearly a week after it intercepted and shot down three unknown objects in U.S. and Canadian airspace.
Biden said the United States was now detecting more objects than it had before because it used new intelligence to enhance how it uses radar to identify small and slow-moving aerial objects.
“Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the incursion by China’s high-altitude balloon, our military … closely scrutinized our airspace, including enhancing our radar to pick up more slow-moving objects,” Biden said during a Feb. 16 press conference.
“We don’t have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky,” he said. “We’re now just seeing more of them partially because [of] the steps we’ve taken to narrow our radars.
