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#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers

The world, the universe and us

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What Do You Think Are UFOs?

The Pentagon has been tracking what it describes as an identified aerial phenomena, which I think everyone else calls UFOs. The US office of the director of national intelligence had actually looked into some of these and they found that balloons accounted for 163 of 366 phenomena over a certain period. And so that was by far the most common explanation. It's basically a lot, you know, I guess there's a lot of balloons out there. So we've got quite an okay understanding then of what this balloon probably was from China. But what about these three other follow-on incidents with fighter jets shooting down are now identified flying objects that have happened since? Right, so here's where it goes from kind of

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