News Analysis
Over eight days and five missiles, U.S. forces shot down four objects flying above U.S. and Canadian airspace.
Those objects include a Chinese spy balloon, and three unidentified objects, one roughly the size of a Volkswagon Beetle and another an octagonal black-metallic object.
It is a historic time for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the joint American-Canadian organization responsible for overseeing North American airspace and its defense, which in its 65-year history had never before shot down an aerial object over North America.
The United States’ encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) over the last two weeks, as well as pilots’ hardships in identifying and engaging with them, highlight glaring weaknesses in U.S. military readiness, according to several defense and security experts….