The American military shoots down three unidentified flying objects in a week, and we examine

what the hell they might be. We review the Super Bowls, cultural highlights, and the Washington

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The Bench Bureau Show. Well, we'll get to all the Super Bowl stuff in just a little bit here.

Essentially, over the weekend, the aliens tried to invade, saw the Super Bowl halftime show,

went what the F, and immediately got the hell out of there on their spaceships as fast as humanly possible.

But the big story over the course of the weekend is that apparently we are now just going happy hunting on a bunch

of unidentified flying objects. There were three unidentified flying objects shot down within

the course of days. The first was shot down over Alaska, apparently. According to CNN.com,

President Biden told CNN the shootdown of a high altitude object hovering over Alaska on Friday was a success. Shortly after American national security officials disclosed that the commander-in-chief gave the U.S. military approval to take the action, the announcement, marking the second time American fighter jets have taken down an object flying over U.S. airspace in a little less than a week, comes after the administration was subjected to a slew of questions about the timing of Joe Biden's decision to shoot down that suspected Chinese spy balloon that was

floating all over the continental United States. This time, the president basically said,

and they shot it down. That's a direct quote from the president.

After the object was first detected on Thursday, F-35s were scrambled to investigate,

according to a U.S. official.

The object, according to National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications,

John Kirby, was flying at an altitude 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.

Apparently, along with efforts by F-35s on Thursday to monitor the thing,

fighter aircraft were then engaged with the object on Friday morning,

and that yielded limited information.

They found out the thing was not manned, and then they immediately shot it down.

Joe Biden, of course, declared this an absolute success.

Here we go.

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