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The US military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, and things only got weirder from there

It started with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, shot down by the American military off the coast of South Carolina after being tracked floating over the continent for at least 4 days. Since then, three more as-yet-unidentified objects have been blown out of the sky, one near the coast of Alaska, one in the northern Yukon Territory, and one over Lake Huron. At this point we can say with some certainty that the origin of these objects is terrestrial, and that’s essentially it.

It may take some time before the public gets definitive answers about what, exactly, is going on here, but the events…

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