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Why does the U.S. keep shooting down UFOs?

In the first two weeks of February, the U.S. Air Force shot down four flying objects that had intruded on the skies over North America, a deployment of force unprecedented during peacetime.

The first object shot down, on Feb. 4, was a Chinese balloon that the Biden Administration says was part of a yearslong scheme to spy on nations across the earth. But so far, officials have been much less

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