After a Chinese spy balloon flew over the US for several days and was finally shot down in the Atlantic, the US government has announced the downing of three other “unidentified flying” objects in just 72 hours, of which hardly any data has been released.
The first was shot down on Friday over the airspace of Alaska. On Saturday, another object was shot down by an American F-22 fighter in the Yukon, western Canada. On Sunday, meanwhile, an F-16 fired an AIM9x missile to shoot down an object in the area of the Great Lakes, in Michiganat about 6,000 meters high.
The object detected in Michigan had forma octogonal with several loose strings, according to government sources quoted by CNN. The one shot down on Friday was silver and the size of a small car. The one shot down on Saturday was cylindrical and “similar” to the balloon shot down in the Atlantic, although smaller, according to Canadian Defense Minister Anita Annad. All of them were flying at a lower altitude than the spy balloon, which according to the Chinese version was a “weather” device that ended up in the US by mistake.
While the US opposition demands more data on the intercepted objects, in the local media theories multiply about the downed devices, to the point that a high command of the Pentagon, General Glen D. Van Herck, left the door open with his statements to their alien origin. When a journalist asked him if he ruled out that they were of extraterrestrial origin, the general limited himself to saying that the threat was being evaluated and that “nothing was ruled out.”
Among the doubts is why so many spy objects are now being detected: the US government blames this fact “in part” on the fact that after the location of the Chinese balloon, the presence of similar elements is being tracked “with more attention”.
However, it is not ruled out that China or some other foreign power is now behind the shipment of these devices in order to test American capabilities to detect strange presences in your airspace. The NATO Secretary General, for his part, has highlighted in the midst of this information how China and Russia “are increasing surveillance and intelligence activities” against Alliance countries. “We see it in cyberspace, we see it with satellites, more and more satellites, and we see it with balloons,” he said.
At the moment, there is no official response from the Government about who is behind these objects, of which it is hardly known that they were smaller than the Chinese balloon and lacked a mechanism to propel themselves. Nor about its objectives, although in the case of Alaska some media are recalling the presence of strategic objectives in the area, from military bases to oil pipelines.