In the days that followed the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon on Feb. 4 by an air-to-air Sidewinder missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet off the South Carolina coast, there has been a sudden rash of supposed UFO sightings. On Feb. 10, the Pentagon said it shot down an unidentified object over frozen U.S. territorial waters near Alaska at the order of President Joe Biden, less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet brought down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic—which was only after the Chinese spy craft had traversed the United States.
Officials later said they could not immediately confirm whether the object was a balloon, but noted it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft….