Is America under attack? What is going on in the United States and Canada? In less than a week,
the US military has shot down three unidentified objects. On February 10, an unidentified flying
object was shot down 10 miles off the frozen coast of Alaska. Then, on February 11,
a US fighter plane shot down a UFO above Canada. Prior to that, a week ago, a suspected Chinese
surveillance balloon was shot down in the North American sky. But was it actually
a Chinese balloon, or is the United States currently under attack from extraterrestrials?
Is the US administration once again withholding information from the public? Stay until the end
to learn all the shocking details about why so many unidentified objects are being shot down.
Since March 2021, the US government has received over 350 new UFO sighting claims. Up until the
month of January, 163 of the 366 newly discovered UAP records were categorized
as "balloon or balloon-like entities" with more than half of these records having "unremarkable
characteristics." The "unremarkable" sightings that remained were classified as drones or
drone-like objects, or they were attributed to weather changes, birds, flying trash,
or other natural phenomena. According to a report from the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI), 171 of the UFOs have yet to be identified, have unusual flight
characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further investigation. However,
a small number of UFO sightings remain a mystery. Some believe that these unexplained flying
objects are proof of extraterrestrial life, while others believe they are covert military aircraft
or unnamed natural occurrences. Even so, it does not answer the question of why the US has suddenly
begun shooting them down. What has changed in a week that the US has changed its stance on UFOs?
Previous Chinese spy balloons over the United States were recently classified as UFOs. This
could explain why top US officials were not informed of the incursions in real
time. A Chinese surveillance balloon floated through American skies for about a week before
being shot down by an F-22 fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday,
February 4. On the same day, the US military revealed that similar Chinese balloons had
intruded on US airspace at least three times during President Donald Trump's administration,
which lasted from January 2017 to January 2021. Those previous incursions did not make headlines.
Even the highest-ranking military officials in the United States took some time to learn about UFOs,
in part because some sightings were initially labelled as UAPs, the new name given to UFOs.
Over the last two years, as the Pentagon and intelligence agencies increased their
efforts to find explanations for many of these incidents, officials reclassified
some of them as Chinese spy balloons. It is unclear when the Pentagon concluded that the
incidents involved Chinese espionage. When the decision was made, officials kept the
information secret to avoid alerting China that their surveillance efforts had been exposed,
according to The Times, citing multiple US officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has taken a greater, and much more public, interest
in UAP in recent years. The Pentagon, for example, announced the formation of a UAP task force in May
2021. The organization's main goal is "to detect, analyze and catalogue UAPs that could potentially
pose a threat to U.S. national security," Pentagon officials said in a brief statement a few months
later. The DOD then established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in July 2022
to track UAP in space and the air and even under water, if some venture into that domain.
Last month, the Department of Defense's Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued
a long-awaited report on UAP, as required by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
The unclassified report investigates 510 UAP sightings, drawing on data gathered by various
intelligence agencies and military branches, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration,
the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy,
and NASA. About one third of those 510 sightings — 171, to be precise — remain "uncharacterized and
unattributed," according to the report. However, nearly the same number, 163, were identified as
balloons or "balloon-like entities." It is unknown how many of those were foreign surveillance craft.
Chinese officials have also apologized for the recent balloon incursion. However, they claim
that the airship was a harmless scientific vessel collecting meteorological data that was blown off
course over the United States. That explanation, however, does not hold water with the US military.
"This was a PRC surveillance balloon," an unnamed DOD official said in a Pentagon update.
"This surveillance balloon purposely traversed the United States and Canada, and we are confident it
was seeking to monitor sensitive military sites." However, let's take a closer look at what happened
in the last week, and you decide whether these are Chinese balloons or something entirely different.
On Saturday, February 11th, an American fighter jet, acting on orders from President Biden and
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shot down another unidentified flying object in
the latest chapter of the drama unfolding in North American skies. “I ordered the take down
of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Mr. Trudeau said in
a tweet. He claimed that an American F-22 from the North American Aerospace Defense Command,
which is run jointly by the US and Canada, shot down the object over the Yukon Territory.
As was the case with the object that Mr. Biden had ordered to be shot down close to Alaska on Friday,
officials stated that they had yet to determine exactly what had been blasted out of the sky over
the Yukon, which borders Alaska. Mr. Trudeau stated that he spoke with Vice President Joe
Biden on Saturday afternoon. “Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of
the object,” he wrote on Twitter. Mr. Biden and Mr. Trudeau "discussed the importance of
recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin," the White House
said in a statement after the shoot down. The Federal Aviation Administration briefly
closed an area near Havre, Mont., to air traffic late Saturday. The same terminology was used
by the agency a week earlier, just before the United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon
off the coast of South Carolina. NORAD and US Northern Command later issued a joint statement
saying that NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate,
but they found nothing that correlated with the radar hits. Officials have acknowledged
that increased awareness may result in false positives. According to Pentagon officials,
the object shot down over the Yukon was detected on radar as it passed over Alaska late Friday.
NORAD dispatched American fighter jets to track it, who were soon joined by Canadian fighters.
General Ryder stated that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin spoke by phone with his
Canadian counterpart, Anita Anand, on Saturday. Ms. Anand described the object as cylindrical
and said it was smaller than the spy balloon that had been shot down over the Atlantic the previous
weekend during a press conference that evening. It is believed to be an extremely uncommon occurrence
for the United States to shoot down unidentified flying objects. However, tensions in the United
States have been high since the discovery of the Chinese spy balloon in American skies about
two weeks ago, prompting Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to cancel a trip to China.
The Chinese government acknowledged responsibility of the dirigible, but claimed it was for weather
research. A similar balloon spotted over Central and South America the same weekend was also for
civilian purposes, according to Beijing. According to three American officials,
American intelligence agencies have determined that China's spy balloon program is part of a
global surveillance effort designed to collect information on the military capabilities of
countries around the world. Some officials believe the balloon flights are part of China's effort to
hone its ability to gather data about American military bases — which it is most interested
in — as well as those of other nations in the event of a conflict or rising tensions.
According to US officials, the balloon program operated from multiple locations in China.
On Friday, one day before the 11th February incident, US officials announced that the military
had shot down an unidentified flying object over the Arctic Ocean near Alaska. In a press
conference, National Security Council spokesperson John F. Kirby stated that the object was shot down
"out of an abundance of caution." After this troops from the United States Northern Command
were working with Alaska National Guard units, the FBI, and local law enforcement in Deadhorse,
Alaska, to recover the object and identify its nature. Officials noted that because the
recovery activities are taking place on sea ice, in frigid temperatures, and with limited daylight,
service members are being forced to proceed slowly. “We have no further details at this time
about the object, including its capabilities, purpose and origin,” the Pentagon said in a
statement about the Alaskan incident. There were numerous speculations in
Washington regarding the origins of the objects, but various Biden administration
officials emphasized that much about the last two objects shot down remains a mystery. The
United States has long monitored U.F.O.s that enter American airspace, and officials believe
that surveillance operations by foreign powers, weather balloons, or other airborne clutter may
explain the most recent incidents of unidentified aerial phenomena (U.F.O.s), as well as many
previous incidents. However, according to a report that was made public in the year 2021, almost all
of the instances continue to be classified as officially unexplained. Intelligence agencies
are expected to provide a classified document to Congress soon that will update that report. This
means that the public will likely never learn the truth about the nature of the objects that
were shot down because the reports detailing them will remain classified for the foreseeable future.
Now it is time for you to tell us what these objects were that were taken down by the
US military? Aside from the first one, which turned out to be a weather balloon from China,
what were the last two objects? Tell us in the comments section.