Sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena have begun to sweep the nation in a fever reminiscent of the flying saucer wave of the mid-20th century. Just as the United States was in a Cold War with the Soviet Union at the time of the 1947 Roswell incident, America remains locked in another cold conflict against communism with Red China.
Three unidentified flying objects were shot down over Alaska, Canada, and Michigan on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after an F-22 fighter jet on Feb. 4 downed a Chinese spy balloon that had crossed the entire continental U.S. While Beijing claimed ownership of the first surveillance balloon that crossed into U.S. airspace earlier this month, mystery remains over who’s behind the objects blown out of the sky this weekend.
More confusing has been the U.S. government’s response to the foreign intrusion. It took Pentagon officials days after the first Chinese spy balloon was spotted by the public to finally bring it down — after it flew from Alaska to South Carolina. Also, instead of capturing the equipment intact, the Canadian and American militaries fired missiles to blow up each object.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters at a White House press briefing on Monday that “some, not all” of the debris from the Chinese spy balloon destroyed over the Atlantic has been recovered.
According to The New York Times, of the 366 similar unexplained incidents since 2021, 163 were later identified as balloons, a classified report in January found.
