Three more objects were discovered floating over North American airspace

It appears the Iron Giant is missing some balloons from his recent birthday party – and he’s not getting them back. Over the weekend, US fighter jets shot down two unidentified flying objects that government officials described as small unmanned balloons, as well as a third object that has yet to be identified.

🎈 How it went down... The objects were first discovered by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which following the suspected Chinese spy balloon incident earlier this month started cranking 5-HTP supplements and more closely monitoring its raw radar data.

The timeline:

• Friday: The US military shot down an object flying over Alaska that officials said was a balloon roughly the size of a small car (for context: the suspected Chinese spy balloon discovered over American airspace two weeks ago was about the size of three school buses).
• Saturday: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau ordered a US fighter jet to shoot down another similarly-sized balloon that had recently entered Canadian airspace via Alaska.
• Sunday: A third flying object was shot down by the US in Canadian airspace over Lake Huron. Officials described the object as octagon-shaped, but didn’t use the word “balloon.”

🏛️ Big picture: Teams are currently working to recover debris from the crash sites to determine where the objects came from. While none of the three “closely resembled” the suspected Chinese spy balloon, Beijing has been conducting a global aerial surveillance program for the past several years, per the Pentagon. But both the US and Canadian governments cautioned that it’s too soon to speculate where the latest three objects originated.