Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

Given recent comments from Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of U.S. Space Command, we shouldn’t expect anything of the sort in anything the government might issue in response to Trump’s pending order.

“I can say, I was personally very interested in the president’s announcement,” Whiting told reporters at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Warfare Symposium in Colorado last week. “I’m curious to see what the data comes up with. I can also tell you that as a space operator of 36 years, I’ve spent a lot of time with space domain awareness sensors, tracking things in space, I’ve never seen anything in space other than man-made objects, so I’m not aware of anything extraterrestrial other than comets and things like that.

“But I’m fascinated by the subject,” he continued. “And if anything is revealed, I would be interested as an American citizen.”

Space Command’s charge includes an area of ​​responsibility (AOR) that extends from the top of the Earth’s atmosphere to the Moon and beyond. One of its missions is to track, monitor and catalog objects in space. Whiting suggested that everything he observed in orbit was of man-made or natural origin.

Whiting said, “We will respond to any directive from the President to look at our files, but I think the term of art now is UAP, and A is airborne, so these are things that are below the Kármán line (100 kilometers), that are in the atmosphere.” “I have seen some of the same video and radar data that you all have, and my guess is that those relevant services and combatant commands will turn over that data. I am very interested in this topic, but I have no personal experience with any of these incidents.”