Call it close encounters of the balloon kind. Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Air Force General Glen VanHerck, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), was asked whether he could rule out that the “unidentified objects” which jets shot out of the sky over the past week could have extraterrestrial origins.

The question was prompted by a curious paragraph in a New York Times article which stated: “The incursions seemed to become so common that Biden administration officials have found themselves issuing private assurances that there is no evidence that they involve extraterrestrial activity. But officials also acknowledge privately that the longer they are unable to provide a public explanation for the provenance of the objects, the more speculation grows.”

VanHerck didn’t bite when the article’s co-author, Helene Cooper, asked whether the objects could be from aliens.

“I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out,” he said. “I haven’t ruled out anything at this point. We continue to assess every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with the attempt to identify it.”

Even more curiously, the New York Times later deleted the above-mentioned paragraph and replaced it with a statement from an unnamed official which essentially said that “no one” thinks the objects have extraterrestrial origins.

Whatever is going on, one thing is certain: the truth is out there.

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