Senators left a classified briefing Tuesday with at least one question answered about the three unidentified flying objects that the military shot down over the weekend: They weren’t aliens.
That’s about where the certainty ends.
Members of both parties entered the briefing room with Biden administration officials wanting more information about the origin of the unidentified objects. They left the room reiterating calls for more transparency from the White House.
“This is what I took away: This has been going on for years,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). “Number two, except for the China spy balloon, we don’t really know what they are. Number three, we don’t even know if we’ve caught all of them. Number four, what’s different right now is that we’ve shot some down. That’s the good news, I suppose.”
Capitol Hill is swirling with intrigue about the military’s downing of four objects that hovered over U.S. and Canadian airspace in recent days. In the absence of complete information, Senate Republicans nudged President Joe Biden to address the nation directly on the matter. While Democrats aren’t going that far, some indicated that the administration could be doing more.
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