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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We are recording this at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 13th of February.

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What is going on in the skies above North America? First came the suspected Chinese spy balloon

now three UFOs. Unidentified flying objects have been shot down in three days in and around Alaska

and the US Canadian border. The most recent is described as an octagonal shaped structure with

strings hanging off it, floating at about 20,000 feet or 6,000 meters. It was brought down over Lake

Huron, east of Michigan. Senior US Air Force commander General Glen Van Herc said these latest

objects were smaller than the Chinese balloon and had been traveling very slowly, but he didn't

know how they were able to stay up in the air. And this was his reaction when asked to rule out

possible links to aliens. I'll let the intel community and the counter intelligence community

figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything at this point. We continue to assess every threat

or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with the attempt to identify it.

The latest craft were detected after US Air Defense stations adjusted radar settings to scan for

smaller and slower moving objects, following the news of the Chinese balloon. Mark Montgomery is

an analyst at the foundation for the defense of democracies. I think we're finally looking in certain

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