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Aliens or espionage? The mysterious objects unravelling US-China relations

World Review from the New Statesman

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Why Are So Many Objects Being Shot Down?

The White House had to issue a denial on Monday that there was any evidence that this was alien or extraterrestrial activity. One of the possible answers for why we're now seeing so many objects shot down is that after that first suspected Chinese bibiline, NORAD adjusted its sensors. And we just don't know at this point. Is there a perfectly innocuous benign explanation? Could these be from a company? could these be from an adversarial state? So we just don’t know and inevitably, that lack of information is fueling what was already, frankly, a pretty febrile atmosphere here in Washington.

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