From a New York Times story by Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, and Edward Wong headlined “What’s Going on Up There? Theories but No Answers in Shootdowns of Mystery Craft.”:

If the truth is out there, it certainly is not apparent yet.

Pentagon and intelligence officials are trying to make sense of three unidentified flying objects over Alaska, Canada and Michigan that U.S. fighter jets shot down with missiles on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The latest turn in the aerial show taking place in the skies above North America comes after a helter-skelter weekend involving what at times seemed like an invasion of unidentified flying objects.