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

Judging by recent comments from Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of U.S. Space Command, we should expect no such thing in anything the government might release in response to Trump’s impending order.

“I can say that, personally, I was very interested in the president’s announcement,” Whiting told reporters last week at the Air and Space Force Association’s war symposium in Colorado. “I can’t wait to see what data comes out. I can also tell you that as a space operator for 36 years, having spent a lot of time with space domain awareness sensors, tracking objects 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 this subject fascinates me,” he continued. “And if anything comes to light, I will be interested as an American citizen.”

Space Command’s charge includes an area of ​​responsibility (AOR) that extends from the top of 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 saw in orbit was attributable to human or natural origin.

“We will respond to any presidential directive to go and review our records, but I think the term of art now is UAP, and the A is aerial, so these are things that are below the Kármán line (100 kilometers), that are in the atmosphere,” Whiting said. “I have seen some of the same video and radar data as all of you, and I assume the relevant services and combatant commands will provide that data. I am very interested in the subject, but I have no personal experience with any of these phenomena.”