The skies above North American have been filled with actual UFOs lately. And they are all not Chinese spy balloons.

This last weekend was filled with multiple reports of unidentified objects in the air being shot down. Whatever these are, they fit the technical definition of a UFO, although we probably are not lucky enough for it to be actual aliens showing up and sending down messages. What we do know is that the internal polling over what happened with the Chinese spy balloon for the Biden administration must be wretched for them to be reacting as swiftly as they currently are.

The first of the most recent takedowns occured on Friday, over Alaska. (So much for not shooting the first spy balloon down in Alaska, hmmm?) The second happened on Saturday, in Canadian airspace, over the Yukon Territory, in a joint operation between American and Canadian forces – which allowed Prime Minister Justin “Mr. Dressup” Trudeau to sound very big and bad. Funny, he usually only sounds like that when talking about a protest convoy. But here he was, doing a little saber rattling of his own, saying that he “ordered” the takedown while thanking NORAD for doing the actual work.

I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the object. Thank you to NORAD for keeping the watch over North America.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 11, 2023

So what IS being shot down, exactly? The Associated Press says that they have gotten some details from anonymous sources, so take it with a grain of salt.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials were still trying to precisely identify two other objects shot down by F-22 fighter jets, and were working to determine whether China was responsible as concerns escalated about what Washington said was Beijing’s large-scale aerial surveillance program.”

An object shot down Saturday over Canada’s Yukon was described by U.S. officials as a balloon significantly smaller than the balloon — the size of three school buses — hit by a missile Feb. 4. A flying object brought down over the remote northern coast of Alaska on Friday was more cylindrical and described as a type of airship.”

Both were believed to have a payload, either attached or suspended from them, according to the officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. Officials were not able to say who launched the objects and were seeking to figure out their origin.”

The three objects were much smaller in size, different in appearance and flew at lower altitudes than the suspected spy balloon that fell into the Atlantic Ocean after the U.S. missile strike.”

The officials said the other three objects were not consistent with the fleet of Chinese aerial surveillance balloons that targeted more than 40 countries, stretching back at least into the Trump administration.”

Oh great, UFOs with payloads of some kind. Fabulous. Which leads us to Sunday’s takedown of yet another object, this time over Lake Huron in Wisconsin airspace. After this UFO was brought down, the Pentagon gave a press briefing, over the phone and on the record, while the Super Bowl was still being played.

Melissa Dalton, assistant defense secretary of Homeland Defense, and Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North Command, held a press conference Sunday evening, hours after a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron.”

The object, believed to be the same tracked over Montana and monitored by the government the night before, was the fourth object shot out of the sky by U.S. fighter jets in eight days, along with ones over Alaska and Canada and a suspected Chinese spy balloon.”

Gen. VanHerck said NORAD detected a “radar contact” in Canada, approximately 70 miles north of the U.S. border, around 4:45 p.m. ET Saturday.”

When it became clear it was an unknown object, NORAD scrambled F-15 fighters from Portland, Oregon and KC-135 tanker support from Fairchild Air Force Base Washington to investigate the object.”

The object crossed into the United States sovereign space around 6 p.m. EST but as the evening waned on, officials lost track, VanHerck said. NORAD identified an “intermittent radar contact” in Montana hours later as it approached Wisconsin.”

“It’s likely, but we have not confirmed the track that we saw in Wisconsin was the same track in Montana,” VanHerck said.”

The object was monitored as it passed over the Great Lakes region in Michigan. When NORAD assessed that it was no physical or military threat, officials shot down the object about 15 nautical miles east of the Upper Peninsula over Lake Huron.”

Operations are underway with multiple agencies, including the Coast Guard, to gather the object’s remains and determine where it came from.”

If you listen to the entire briefing, it’s clear that officials, while wanting to be “transparent” (the Biden administration’s current favorite word), are also being deliberately obtuse. They very clearly can’t tell us what they don’t know yet, but they aren’t being “transparent” about what they do know, either. It would definitely help, for example, if the AP’s story about what the first two UFOs were was confirmed. After all, someone is talking. Also, the Pentagon mentioned that they used a type of missile to shoot down the items that can heat-seek, and then when pressed directly by Michigan Radio (question asked at 22:55 on the video above) why they would use a missile, General VanHerck declined to comment on whether or not the objects had a propulsion system. Instead, he said that whatever it was had a strong enough infrared contrast that it could be “seen” by the missile and gunfire alone wasn’t going to be adequate enough to bring them down.

What, then, is the American public left to think? We are left with a few options. First, aliens. While this would be preferred, I’m not hopeful. Second, a “false flag” operation being put on by our own government. While many may think this is the most convenient of the options, I am of the opinion that it’s simply too complicated and too messy to pull off without being exposed at some point. Then there is option three, which is that bad actors, meaning China or other hostile nations, are sending crap through the skies for any one of a number of purposes. China took credit for their “civilian weather airship,” which means that it was simply too obvious that the balloon came from China to deny (maybe it had “made in China” painted on the side or something), which also gave them the standing to complain loudly about it being shot down. Is China behind the other three “objects” that have been shot down? It will largely depend on what is found, and given that we keep using missiles to blow them up, who knows what debris is left. The Pentagon was asked directly if images from the fighter jets that have engaged with the “objects” would be made available to the public. There wasn’t much of an answer to that question.

Option four is probably at least as plausible as option three, which would be that the Pentagon is shooting anything that moves in the sky and destroying it because then it cannot be identified. Remember, the Biden administration acknowledged the first balloon only because local news in Montana revealed its presence. We have since learned that the balloon was spotted over the Aleutian Islands on January 28th, and given how trigger happy the Pentagon has become, it should have been popped on the Pacific side of the country. Instead, it got a nice leisurely trip, and made it all the way to the Atlantic before being popped off the coast of South Carolina. The optics were terrible, Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled his trip to China, tensions with China were heightened, and both Democrats and Republicans demanded answers. If everything that moves is blown to smithereens in the sky by missiles, and the debris isn’t easily identifiable, then no one can be directly blamed, and the delicate balance of international politics might hold… meaning that Team Biden is chickening out when it comes to confronting China. Not a particularly comforting option, is it?

Dealing with aliens might just be easier than confronting China.

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