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Three airborne objects in North American airspace were shot from the sky by the American military in the span of three days over the weekend at President Joe Biden’s direction, an unprecedented series of events that is leading to fresh questions about what exactly is transpiring high in the skies above the US.
Biden on Monday ordered a new government-wide effort to determine what precisely is happening. And in four separate locations, from the frozen waters off Alaska to the Carolina coast, work was underway to collect and analyze debris from the shot-down objects.
But answers about what the objects were, where they were from and what they were doing remained elusive.
During a midday briefing at the White House, the only detail of certainty was that the objects did not originate from outer space.
“I just wanted to make sure we address this from the…