The Secrets in Our Skies
The first spy balloon, which entered U.S. airspace on January 28, was shot down over the Atlantic on February 4. (Chad Fish via AP)
We shot down four objects floating over U.S. airspace, but gave up looking for three. What were they exactly—and what is the government not telling us?
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The secrets of the mysterious crafts floating across America are now buried forever under the sea ice of northern Alaska, the wilds of the Yukon, and the choppy, gray-white waters of Lake Huron.
Amazingly, it was too cold, and the weather conditions too harsh, for the United States military—which had no trouble blasting the balloons out of the sky—to ke…
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