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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Three days in a row, and four times in eight days, the US military has taken action against objects flying above North America,

yet the Biden administration has been strangely tight-lipped about sharing what it knows about these events with the American public to put a fine point on it.

What the hell is going on up there, Mr. President?

Plus, Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott tussle over Republican plans for the future of Social Security and Medicare.

Democrats won't mind this intro-Republican feuding.

Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo, here with my colleagues Kim Strassel and Kate Bacheldur O'Dell.

Let's start with the unidentified flying objects, not to say from their alien, but they are unidentified in at least three cases.

First intrusion into US airspace happened on January 28th. The administration didn't tell the public about it until civilians spotted it in the sky above Montana.

It forced the administration's hand. They nonetheless waited eight days to shoot it down, only after it crossed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina.

Clearly identified as a Chinese spy balloon, although Joe Biden said it was, quote, not a major breach, unquote, even though he ordered it shot down.

What does he do with minor breaches?

On Friday and Saturday and Sunday, US jets shut down three more objects, one over Northern Alaska, another in the Yukon territory in Canada, and then on Sunday over Lake Huron in the Midwest.

First reported the last one by Congressman on Twitter after they'd been alerted by administration officials.

And no waiting in those instances as the Pentagon shut down those objects within 24 hours or so. So Kate, what do we know about these latest three objects and why the president ordered them shut down?

Yeah, Paul. So well, most of America was watching the Super Bowl. I was trying to grow what the Pentagon was telling us about these incidents on Sunday night, and it is confusing and not very much.

What we know from this one that was shot down Sunday over Lake Huron or God's country is some of us, Micheal, does know it. It was it was octagonal. They tell us. And the object was not a balloon, though when General Van Herk was asked about, well, what is it? He said, these are objects.

I'm not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure or it could be some type of a propulsion system. So we start to get into here. Okay, kind of if it walks and talks like a balloon, maybe it is a balloon, but they're not saying that they're referring to it as an object.

Another really concerning details about this Paul is that there was some activity over the radar got something in Montana on Saturday around six o'clock at 15s went to take a look at it, but the Pentagon says, well, we couldn't get fidelity on it because it was getting dark.

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