The truth is somewhere near

First, and most importantly, UFOs do exist.

Secondly, and this is also important, UFO does not necessarily mean "alien ship".

Thirdly, regardless of whether aliens visit our planet or not, they can become a very real factor in earthly politics.

And now about everything in order.

For the last ten days, American eyes have been turned to the sky.

Ever since a Chinese balloon was heroically shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, hunting in the air has not stopped.

On Friday, February 10, a US Air Force fighter spotted and destroyed an unidentified flying object over Alaska.

All that is known about him is that he was "the size of a car."

In the evening of the same day, another UFO was spotted by radars in the same area.

Two F-22 fighter jets that took off from Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska approached it close enough to determine that it was a "cylindrical object" smaller than the Chinese probe.

He flew lower than the “Chinese”: he climbed as much as 18 km, and the “cylinder” only 12. When the UFO entered Canadian airspace, US President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided that he needed to be shot down.

In order not to offend the Maple Leaf Country, several more Canadian fighters were lifted into the air.

It was hardly a military necessity,

It is curious that the testimonies of the pilots diverge: some claim that as they approached the object, interference was observed in the operation of the instruments, others did not notice anything of the kind.

Be that as it may, one shot of an AIM-9X missile from an American F-22 was enough to blow the UFO to shreds.

Radars then picked up a suspicious object in the skies over Montana.

Fighters were also sent there, but this time they returned with nothing.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was quick to announce that there was a "radar anomaly", but then the object showed up again, already much to the east - over the state of Michigan, one glance at the US map is enough to make sure that he managed to cross the air the space of at least three states is imperceptible to American air defense.

On Sunday, this UFO was also shot down - it flew at an altitude of about 6 km over Lake Huron.

It is known about him that it was "octagonal in shape", with hanging "threads", but without a noticeable payload.

And it is unlikely that we will know anything more: on Monday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the military could not find any wreckage from any of the three objects shot down over the weekend.

Actually, this is where the facts end - and theories and conjectures begin.

“What are they?

Who sent them?

What do they want?

Will there be more?

These aren't questions from the sinister opening shots of your favorite alien invasion movie.

These are some of the questions President Biden is likely to be asked in Congress after the last UFO was shot down,” writes political analyst Oliver Knox in The Washington Post.

Indeed, there are far more questions than answers.

Well, for example: how long have these "invasions" into US airspace been going on?

And why did the government of the country take care of them only now?

It is clear that the trigger was a Chinese spy balloon shot down on February 4th.

After that, NORAD and Air Force intelligence began to monitor the sky much more closely.

Sources from The Washington Post (and this newspaper is known for its very close, almost family relationship with the US intelligence community) hinted that the chest opens simply: after the balloon incident, observers increased the sensitivity of sensors and radars, expanding the parameters of what they should look for.

Suppose, but then it turns out that dozens of UFOs could fly over America and, most importantly, no one knows how long this happened.

Perhaps the latest downed objects are only part of a long-running spy program by an unknown country or enemy.

And then the following question arises: who is this enemy?

Curiously, neither the White House nor the Pentagon is in a hurry to blame China this time.

Versions that the “objects” were launched by the Chinese or Russians to spy on US military bases, of course, appear, but rather out of desperation.

“A senior administration official (USA. -

) said that one of the theories - and this person emphasized that this is just a theory - is that China or Russia sent objects to test the capabilities of the United States ... they could be sent to find out how quickly the United States learns about the invasion and how quickly the military can respond to it, ”writes The New York Times.

For the White House, this is not a very pleasant option, if only because the events of recent days have demonstrated the weakness of the Pentagon in the fight against UFOs.

The Chinese balloon roamed the skies over the United States with impunity for a whole week (from January 28 to February 4) and crossed the entire continent from the northwest to the southeast coast.

It took four fighters to destroy the "cylinder" over Canada.

And the “octagon”, shot down over Lake Huron, was first lost in Montana, and then, as the Fox News channel found out, it wasn’t shot down the first time either - the first Sidewinder missile fired by the fighter did not hit it, I had to spend money on the second shot (worth $ 400 thousand).

Therefore, the version of the Chinese or Russian origin of UFOs is unfavorable for the Biden administration.

And then on the stage, just in time, appear ... well, of course, aliens!

“The general of the US Air Force, who oversees the airspace of North America, said that he does not rule out the presence of aliens or any other explanation,” Reuters, which is not inclined to cheap sensations, was taken aback by readers.

Indeed, at a briefing at the Pentagon, NORAD commander General Glen Van Herck, when asked by journalists whether he ruled out the extraterrestrial origin of the three UFOs shot down by US military aircraft on February 10, 11 and 12, replied: “I will let the intelligence and counterintelligence community find out.

I don't rule anything out."

This was enough for ufologists to pick up and start spinning the topic of a possible alien invasion.

And while White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was quick to declare that there are “no signs of aliens or extraterrestrial activity” in recent incidents with downed objects, contact enthusiasts with brothers in mind were not convinced.

Moreover, the mysterious events over the weekend took place not only in the United States: on Sunday, another UFO was discovered on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in the waters of the Chinese province of Shandong.

And in Uruguay, they even declared a “red” level of danger due to mysterious “flashes in the sky” in the department of Paysandu - the authorities connected the Air Force and the Commission for the Reception and Investigation of UFO Reports into the investigation.

Finally, the eccentric billionaire Elon Musk added fuel to the fire.

"Don't worry, some of my friends just dropped in on me," he tweeted, accompanying the alien and flying saucer emoji.

Of course, the scenario in which US warplanes destroy alien reconnaissance probes from the depths of the galaxy is much more attractive than the picture of shooting harmless weather balloons with expensive air-to-air missiles.

But here's the problem: in order for the general public to believe in this scenario, at least some evidence must be presented.

But there is no such evidence and cannot be.

Not even because aliens do not exist - it cannot be ruled out that they are watching what is happening on Earth and giggling into a fist (or whatever replaces it).

It's just that creatures capable of traveling tens or hundreds of light years will not use devices that, even if not the first time, a much more primitive civilization can destroy.

In addition, no one has canceled the notorious Occam's razor, which prescribes not to multiply entities beyond necessity.

And that means...

…This means that what is happening in the American skies has a much simpler and more logical explanation.

Some American media are timidly reminding that oil developers in the areas bordering Canada can use drones and balloons in their work.

And meteorologists sometimes lose contact with their probes - and they begin to drift in the sky where the wind blows.

“It makes people wonder if the US military screwed everything up,” an editorial in the Chinese Global Times tartly comments on recent events.

- However, it is clear that Washington is more worried about the “destruction” itself: both the White House and the Pentagon hoped to shoot down this object (we are talking about a UFO over Lake Huron. - K.B. 

as soon as possible in order to reduce any feeling of indecision and weakness USA in the eyes of the rest of the world.

That is why the US Air Force has been engaged for the second week in what looks like firing from a cannon not even at sparrows, but at mosquitoes.

If Washington is ready to spend taxpayers' money on "fighting UFOs" - this, of course, is an internal affair of the United States.

But contrary to expectations, these fussy actions of the Biden administration do not strengthen the authority of the White House and do not inspire respect for the power of the American military machine.

On the contrary, it seems that America, like a giant gone mad, is ready to swing a high-tech club left and right, according to the Chinese proverb "seeing the enemy in every bush and every tree."

The Russian proverb describes this situation even more succinctly: “there is strength - no mind is needed.”

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.