China Reports Plans to Down ‘Unidentified Flying Object’ Off its Eastern Coast

Authorities have now taken out three objects in the airspace above North America, a stunning development that is raising questions on just what, exactly, is hovering overhead and who has sent them.

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FBI special agents assigned to the evidence response team process material recovered from the high altitude balloon recovered off the coast of South Carolina February 9 at the FBI laboratory at Quantico, Virginia. FBI via AP

Chinese state media reported Sunday that they too have discovered an unidentified flying object off its coast and that authorities there were preparing to shoot it down, one day after American and Canadian officials said they downed two such objects over North America.

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