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Why the US keeps shooting stuff out of the sky and a reality check on UFOs

Ever since a big white Chinese balloon fluttered across the ocean and into US airspace

The United States is now shot down four objects over North American skies

The first one that balloon has landed in the waters off the coast of South Carolina

We are currently harvesting its exploded remains for information about Chinese surveillance technology

As for the other three, well, we don't know much

The scattered remains are littered in the Arctic Ocean the Yukon territories the Great Lakes

And the government has not been entirely forthcoming

The head of NORAD said the military didn't fully understand the propulsion system allowing these objects to stay in the air

That's a little weird

And into that vacuum of weirdness and uncertainty

Conspiracy theories are flooding

What isn't the government telling us what kind of technology is floating around American skies?

Is it American?

Is it Chinese?

Is it human?

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