In response to public pressure about failing to stop the Chinese spy balloon when it was easy and obvious to do so, the United States military apparently re-read their Tom Clancy, took the SAPS filters off their radar sets, and started blowing up the ridiculously large number of UFOs which apparently have been always floating around up there.
The Newspaper of Record weighs in: Goose Getting Suspicious This F-18 Is Following Him
There are various degrees of bad luck. There's "stubbed your toe" bad luck. There's "I just came home from an expensive European vacation to find my roof is leaking". Then there's "I traveled 14000 light years to Earth and because of a Chinese spy balloon the week before my spacecraft got shot down".
Bonus WTF: next time you take that stupid Injun themed boat from Manitoulin Island to Bruce Peninsula, watch the unfriendly skies.
