Former Representative Peter Meijer, a Michigan Republican, questioned whether or not the object that was shot down over Alaska on Friday could have been an unidentified flying object (UFO), as Pentagon officials remain quiet over what the threat was.
Meijer, who represented Michigan's 3rd Congressional District up until recently, wrote on Twitter on Friday: "Really hoping this 'unidentified [flying] object' was another spy balloon and not a legit UFO."
"The irony of confusing an alien spacecraft for a weather balloon would be amazing but not worth starting an interstellar conflict," the former congressman added.
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