Government & military
Joe Biden
U.S. president giving the 2023 object assessment
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Joe Biden was the U.S. president who publicly addressed the February 2023 shootdowns of a Chinese balloon and three additional aerial objects. His February 16 remarks distinguished the cases and described the administration’s provisional assessment. That statement is included as a dated government response to uncertainty, not a final identification of every object.
He appears through an official public explanation of the 2023 aerial-object incidents.
Selected contributions
- Issued the February 16, 2023 remarks distinguishing the three unidentified objects from the Chinese balloon.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
Primary records
Primary text · 2023
Remarks on the United States Response to Unidentified Aerial Objects in North American Airspace and an Exchange With Reporters
Biden distinguishes the Chinese surveillance balloon from three other objects shot down in February 2023 and gives the administration’s provisional assessment. The statement also explains the role of increased radar scrutiny.
Reading scope & citation
Fresh retrieval of the four-page official transcript; exact title, date and the prepared statement on pages 1–2 read. The subsequent questions were not exhaustively audited.
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Remarks on United States military operations against unidentified aerial objects ↗White House / GovInfo
- Remarks on the United States Response to Unidentified Aerial Objects in North American Airspace and an Exchange With Reporters ↗Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office
Portrait credit
Adam Schultz. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (U.S. federal government work) ↗
