A word of reassurance from the New York Times

"It is believed to be rare for the United States to shoot down unidentified flying objects."

 Whew. Good to know. Still, for the record, twice in the week just ended the U.S. rarely shot down unidentified — as in nobody seems to know exactly what the were — objects flying over Alaska or the Canadian Yukon.

Or so we are led to believe. By, among other sources, the New York Times.

Go figure.