The Chinese surveillance ballon, before it was downed on February 4th - Joe Granita, Zuma Press/TNS

By: Maria Júlia Sala (Grade 5)

Three unidentified flying objects have been downed by the U.S.A military fighter jets’ missiles over the Alaskan, Canadian and Michigan airspaces, respectively, since the beginning of this year. The Pentagon and U.S.A. intelligence community are investigating the purposes and origins of those objects.

On February 4th, a Chinese surveillance balloon was downed from 65,000 feet near the coast of South Carolina. The U.S.A. government intends to resolve this impasse peacefully, as President Biden himself has said: “We seek competition, not conflict with China. We’re not looking for a new Cold War”. “We will compete and will we responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn’t veer into conflict”, concludes Biden.

After the surveillance balloon incident, speculation about the three other U.F.O.s took place on social media. Even though the government declared that “nothing right now suggests that they were related to China’s balloon program” and they were “most likely tied to private companies, recreation and research institutions”, theories were created by the population, going from more means of espionage to extraterrestrial beings. Thus far, the U.S.A. government did not determine what the objects were.

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