There is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity.

Pentagon officials were grilled on Capitol Hill about why they waited so long to shoot it down.

Then the Pentagon is declining to describe these recent objects as balloons.

As you might have heard, there have been some foreign objects flying overhead.

So it is possible that you have sent out the reports of UFOs,

no listings like foreign surveillance.

Today we dive into the science behind the balloon bourgeoisha.

Again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent take-dows.

I'm Tulaikabobs, I'm Sophie Bushwick, and you're listening to Science Quartet.

So here's a quick recap. On February 4th, the US shot down a massive Chinese surveillance balloon.

After it spent days traveling across the country, another balloon was also spotted floating over Latin America.

And then it emerged that even more balloons had been encroaching on US airspace since 2018, evading early detection.

China claimed that the balloon that was shot down was a weather monitoring station blown off course.

But then, the US recovered sensors and electronic equipment from the wreckage,

indicating that it could have been used for eavesdropping on electronic communications.

The US shot down three more airborne objects.

One off the coast of Alaska, one over Canada, and one over Lake Huron in Michigan.

We still don't know a lot about these three objects, but Sophie, our resident tech editor, scientific American,

decided to interview an aerospace expert and let's not forget...

A UAP expert. So this is someone who specializes in...

An identified aerial phenomenon?

Correct. It's the new and improved term for UFOs.

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