UNPRECEDENTED: So much mystery surrounds the three unidentified flying (or floating) objects downed by U.S. fighter jets over the past three days that when Gen. Glen VanHerck, NORAD commander, was asked during a briefing last night if the objects could be extraterrestrial in origin, VanHerck replied, “I haven’t ruled out anything at this point.”

The objects — shot down Friday over northern Alaska, Saturday over the Yukon territory of western Canada, and yesterday over Michigan’s Lake Huron — are truly unidentified as U.S. and Canadian forces work to recover the wreckage hampered by bad weather.