外国人s? 欠如（する） of US info on shootdowns 産む／飼育するs wild ideas

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WASHINGTON (AP) - With few 確認するd 詳細（に述べる）s from 大統領 Joe Biden´s White House, the 負かす／撃墜するing of three unknown 空中の 反対するs in as many days by U.S. 闘士，戦闘機 jets has 誘発するd wild 憶測 about what they were and where they （機の）カム from. It even fell to his 圧力（をかける） 長官 on Monday to 発表する 真面目に there was no 指示，表示する物 of "外国人s or extraterrestrial activity."

The 大統領，／社長 had no public events Monday and has 申し込む／申し出d little 安心 or explanation of what to make of it all, に引き続いて the 発見 of a Chinese 秘かに調査する balloon crossing the country and the 前例のない 平時（の） shootdowns that have followed.

U.S. 公式の／役人s said they still know little about the three 反対するs 負かす／撃墜するd Friday off the coast of Alaska, Saturday over Canada and Sunday over Lake Huron. But those shootdowns have been part of a more assertive 返答 to 空中の phenomena に引き続いて the balloon episode 非難するd on an 現在進行中の Beijing スパイ program.

White House 圧力（をかける） 長官 Karine ジーンズ-Pierre did have at least one 最終的な 声明 to try to tamp 負かす／撃墜する unrestrained theories: "I know there's been questions and 関心s about this, but there is no - again, no - 指示，表示する物 of 外国人s or extraterrestrial activity."

The U.S. 政府 主張するs the three 反対するs did not 提起する／ポーズをとる a 脅し to American 安全 and that even the 大規模な 秘かに調査する balloon 供給するd "限られた／立憲的な additive 能力s" to 中国's other 監視 programs. Still, they were 発射 out of the sky "out of an 豊富 of 警告を与える," 国家の 安全 会議 広報担当者 John Kirby said.

Biden´s unparalleled 決定／判定勝ち（する） to shoot 負かす／撃墜する four 反対するs over North America in eight days - when 連合させるd with U.S. 公式の／役人s´ 成果／努力s to 公然と downplay the foreign 脅し - has その上のd the dissonant messages 存在 sent about 極度の慎重さを要する 成果／努力s to 保護する the 母国.

U.S. 公式の／役人s, speaking on the 条件 of anonymity to discuss 内部の 審議s, 認める the 混乱, 説 the administra tion wants to keep the American public from becoming unnecessarily worried while also trying to 持続する a 堅い posture toward 中国.

Kirby said that while the U.S. has no 明確な／細部 推論する／理由s to 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う the 空中の 反対するs were 秘かに調査するing, "we couldn´t 支配する that out." He 追加するd that the most 最近の 反対するs, 飛行機で行くing between 20,000 and 40,000 feet, could have 提起する／ポーズをとるd a remote 危険 to 非軍事の 計画（する）s.

That 合法的な justification for the downings - that the 反対するs might imperil 非軍事の flight - is 見解（をとる）d by some 公式の／役人s as such a remote 可能性 that it raises questions about whether it was a mere pretext for 事実上の／代理 堅い.

Biden "wants to appear 堅い on 中国, and this is a good example of where 活動／戦闘s speak louder than words," said Brian Ott, co-author of "The Twitter 大統領／総裁などの地位: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White 激怒（する）."

"If we find ourselves next year in a 大統領の 審議 between the two of them, Trump will try to cast Biden as weak on 国家の 安全, and Biden will be able turn to Trump and say, `How many of these Chinese balloons and 身元不明の 反対するs did you shoot out of the sky?´"

Ott, a professor of communications at Missouri 明言する／公表する University, said Biden´s 親族 silence on the takedown of the Chinese balloon and other 反対するs could be guided, at least in part, by his 2024 reelection considerations. 共和国の／共和党のs, from 上院 少数，小数派 Leader Mitch McConnell to 右翼 firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 非難するd Biden in the days after the Chinese balloon was spotted in U.S. 領空 for 存在 slow to 行為／法令／行動する.

When 圧力（をかける）d on whether the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to shoot the 反対するs 負かす／撃墜する （機の）カム in 返答 to such 批評, Kirby 主張するd, "These were 決定／判定勝ち（する）s based 純粋に and 簡単に on what was in the best 利益／興味s of the American people."

With little （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to go o n, 上院議員s in both parties 需要・要求するd answers as they returned to Washington on Monday.

上院 大多数 Leader Chuck Schumer 発表するd that 上院議員s would receive a 分類するd 要点説明 Tuesday morning and that 議会 would work in coming weeks to get the "十分な story of what happened." Illinois Sen. 刑事 Durbin, the No. 2 民主党員 behind Schumer, said Biden "借りがあるs the country some answers."

共和国の／共和党の McConnell said Biden "needs to communicate and level with the American people." He questioned what the 行政 knew about 中国´s 監視 成果／努力s before the first balloon crossed the country.

After the balloon was 発射 負かす／撃墜する, the White House 明らかにする／漏らすd that such balloons had 横断するd U.S. 領土 at least three times during Trump´s 行政 unbeknownst to the former 大統領，／社長 or his 補佐官s - and that others have flown over dozens of nations across five continents. Kirby 強調するd Monday that they were only （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd by the Biden 行政.

Jim Ludes, a former 国家の 弁護 分析家 who now leads the Pell 中心 for International 事件／事情／状勢s and Public 政策 at Salve Regina University, said political parrying is 必然的な.

"It doesn´t 事柄 what the 行政 says. People are going to play politics with it and try to 得点する／非難する／２０ points," he said. "Either they 行為／法令／行動するd too slowly, or too あわてて."

There´s good 推論する／理由 for the Biden 行政 to be 用心深い, Ludes 追加するd, 公式文書，認めるing that the blow-up over the 空中の 装置s comes まっただ中に 高くする，増すd 緊張s between 中国 and Taiwan. The wrong 声明 from Biden could 動揺させる an already fraught 状況／情勢.

"Next time we 飛行機で行く a B-52 負かす／撃墜する the 海峡s, what does 中国 do?" Ludes said. "There are 適切な時期s for this to become very コンビナート／複合体 very quickly."

Kirby on Monday sought to dra w a distinction between the 最新の 反対するs and the 確認するd 監視 balloon, 強調するing their far smaller size, 欠如（する） of maneuverability and the 欠如（する） of any 指示，表示する物 they were communicating before they were 発射 負かす／撃墜する. They were only （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd, he said, because the U.S. had adjusted the sensitivity on 空気／公表する 弁護 レーダs to （悪事，秘密などを）発見する high-飛行機で行くing, slow-moving 反対するs like the 監視 balloon.

公式の／役人s have yet to retrieve any parts of the three 身元不明の 反対するs, 弁護 長官 Lloyd Austin said, 特記する／引用するing the 背信の 地形, water and 天候 where they were brought 負かす／撃墜する. U.S. 公式の／役人s could not even say whether they were balloons or some other type of 空中の 乗り物, and have thus far 拒絶する／低下するd to 株 imagery taken before they were 発射 負かす／撃墜する.

All that is （疑いを）晴らす, it seems, is that it wasn't ET.

Kirby echoed ジーンズ-Pierre on that: "I don´t think the American people need to be worried about 外国人s with 尊敬（する）・点 to these （手先の）技術."

___ AP writers David Klepper and Tara Copp 与える／捧げるd.