What America has been shooting down in the sky
After much excitement, there is still only one balloon that was up to no good
It turns out that the three unknown objects shot out of the skies by American jets in successive days, after the earlier taking down of a Chinese spy balloon, were neither sent from Beijing nor from another galaxy (as some had suggested). They were probably “benign” and employed for commercial or research purposes.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Shoot first, ask questions later”
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