What we know about the uptick in mystery objects being shot down from US airspace
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The public spent Super Bowl weekend anxiously watching the skies as the U.S. military shot down a series of unidentified flying objects over the United States and Canada.
The Pentagon oversaw the shooting down of three unidentified objects in as many days — the first on Friday over Alaska, the second on Saturday over Canada's Yukon territory, and the third on Sunday over Lake Huron. The chaotic series of events came just over a week after the U.S. downed a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic coast.
U.S. officials confirmed last week that the balloon, which traversed the continental U.S. before being shot down just off the coast of South Carolina, was designed as part of a wider surveillance program, something China disputes.
Two top Pentagon officials — Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, and Melissa Dalton, the assistant defense secretary for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs — spoke to reporters on a call Sunday evening, but the briefing seemed to produce more questions than answers.
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